PRAGUE, July 4 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice will arrive in Prague on Tuesday to sign the treaty on the
stationing of a U.S. radar base on Czech soil, the Czech government's website
said on Friday.
Rice is expected to land in Prague in the late
morning on Tuesday. Before noon, she is to meet Czech Prime Minister Mirek
Topolanek in the prime minister's Kramar villa.
The Czech Foreign Ministry's press department said on
Friday Rice and Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg will sign the treaty
in the Cernin Palace, the Foreign Ministry's seat, on Tuesday afternoon.
The treaty still need to be approved by Czech
parliament and President Vaclav Klaus.
Negotiations about other agreements related to the
main treaty have not been completed yet.
On Wednesday morning, Rice may fly to Poland where a
silo with ten interceptor missiles, another part of the planned U.S. missile
defense shield in Europe, is to be located.
U.S.-Polish talks on the treaty are still underway,
Polish Defense Minister Bogdan Klich told journalists on Thursday.
The United States has planned to build a radar base
at the Brdy military district, some 90 kilometers southwest of the Czech capital
Prague, along with an interceptor missile base in Poland.
Russia is strongly opposed to the deployment of the
system, saying the plan poses a threat to its strategic interests. Some
70percent of Czech citizens also reportedly oppose the project.