Cabinet ministers would advise PM not to go to Beijing

The majority of Czech cabinet ministers are prepared to advise Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek not to attend the Olympic Games in Beijing, according to the news website Aktualne.cz. The prime minister has said he would let the cabinet decide whether or not it would be appropriate for him to go. According to aktualne.cz the vast majority of ministers would vote against such a move. Education Minister Ondřej Liška is refusing to attend the games in protest of human rights abuse in China and Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg has appealed to Czech politicians to boycott the games, saying that their presence at the Olympics would represent support for a Chinese regime which has shown itself to be a dictatorship.