Around 65 percent of Czechs are against the U.S. establishing a missile defense base in their country, the daily Dnes reported on Thursday.

A total of 36 percent of the 961 respondents "definitely disagree" with the stationing of defense missiles in their country, while 29 percent "fairly oppose" it, according to a poll conducted by the Factum Invenio agency for the Foreign Ministry.

On the contrary, some 28 percent of people would not mind living with the U.S. base, the poll said.

The poll found around 60 percent of the respondents would not mind only having U.S. radar equipment in their country, and 34 percent of people are against it.

The U.S. has plans for a base with missiles and two radars.

The United States plans to deploy a missile defense radar in the Czech Republic and interceptor missiles in Poland. The operation is going to start in 2011 and the location of the base would be decided early this year. Washington is also to make the final decision on the operation early this year.

Most people in the Czech Republic and Poland expressed fears that the U.S. missile base would decrease security in their countries.

Source: Xinhua