Prime Minister Topolánek: talks with US on radar to close this week

The negotiations about a US radar base stationed on Czech territory will be completed in Washington this week, Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek told the AP news agency, ahead of his departure for a working visit to the United States on Monday. “We have reached a stage where we are able to complete the talks during my visit to America,” Mr Topolánek said. The opposition Social Democrats and Communists have criticised his words. According to the Communist chairman Vojtěch Filip he doesn’t have the mandate to negotiate, since the majority of Czechs are against the radar.