Poll: nearly 50 percent of Czechs against radar treaty

Nearly 50 percent of Czechs believe that Czech parliament and the president should not approve the treaty on the deployment of a US radar base on Czech soil signed on Tuesday by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her Czech counterpart Karel Schwarzenberg, according to a poll conducted by the STEM agency in July. Around 50 percent of respondents think that the parliament should vote only after the US presidential elections in November.