Signing of radar agreement to be delayed

The signing of a Czech-American agreement on the siting of a US tracking radar on Czech soil is likely to be postponed to a later date; the American Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice will not arrive in Prague next Monday as previously planned, the spokeswoman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Zuzana Opletalová has said. Mrs Rice was originally scheduled to attend a conference on missile defence in Prague on May 5. Along with the main treaty, the Czech Republic and the US are also negotiating on the SOFA treaty, which specifies the presence of US troops in the country.