Foreign Minister stakes his political future on US radar base treaty
Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg has staked his political future on the Czech Parliament approving plans for a US radar base in the Czech Republic. Mr Schwarzenberg said that if the government failed to push a bilateral agreement on the base through Parliament in the coming months, then he would step aside to let a “better” foreign minister succeed where he had failed. In an interview with Reuters news agency, Mr Schwarzenberg said he was not sure of the government’s chances of success with the radar base treaty since the majority of the population is against the base and a large number of MPs are strongly opposed.