Green Party will not support US radar base

The Green Party has said it is prepared to vote against a Czech-American agreement on the deployment of a US radar base on Czech territory. Ondrej Liska, head of the party's deputies' group in the lower house told Saturday's edition of Pravo that his party could not support a bilateral defense agreement between the US and the Czech Republic. If the radar base were part of a multi-lateral defense strategy it should still be approved by national referendum, Liska said. The Communist Party has also strongly rejected the idea of hosting a US radar base on Czech territory. The main opposition party of Social Democrats has not yet voiced an official stand. If it were to oppose the agreement, then the opponents of the US radar base in the lower house would outnumber its supporters.