Rice signs treaty on US radar base

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her Czech counterpart Karel Schwarzenberg signed an agreement on Tuesday on the planned deployment of a U.S. radar base on Czech soil. To take effect, the treaty will still need to be approved by the Czech Parliament and signed by President Václav Klaus. The radar base is meant to be part of a US global missile defence shield. The proposed radar in the Czech Republic would be linked to a missile base in neighbouring Poland to counter the threat of an attack from so called “rogue” states such as Iran. Mrs Rice said on Tuesday that talks with Poland remained incomplete and that she didn’t yet know the date by which the treaty on US missile base on Polish soil may be signed.