The planned U.S. anti-missile shield in Central Europe should be integrated with the NATO system to the greatest possible extent, U.S. Republican Senator Mel Martinez said in Prague on Wednesday.
Martinez, who met Czech Senate foreign committee head by Richard Sequens, said that it is important for the project that prominent NATO members start to actively support the shield and that they change their "neutral" stand.
The United States initiated the plan to deploy an anti-missile radar base in the Czech Republic and a missile interceptor base in Poland earlier last year. Negotiations between the Czech Republic and the United States are underway.
A recent opinion poll showed that the planned U.S. radar base is rejected by 70 percent of Czechs that is the highest rate over the time when the polls on the issue have taken place.
Russia has also expressed strong objection to the U.S. missile defense program in Poland and the Czech Republic.
Martinez said that he believed the forthcoming change of president and government in the United States will not affect the U.S. plans, according to the information from the Czech news agency CTK.
The project has a broad support in the United States even though it is widely discussed there, Martinez added.
Source:Xinhua
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