Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico strongly opposed against the stationing of a radar base in the Czech Republic, the Czech news agency CTK said on Tuesday.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her Czech counterpart Karel Schwarzenberg signed the main treaty on the stationing of a U.S. radar base on Czech soil on Tuesday despite protests from both the Czech public and Russia.
"We are a little nervous about it because we do not want to have either radars or missiles behind our backs," Fico said, adding that he would not allow a similar base to be stationed in Slovakia.
"If any one asked us for it, we would say a clear no, never on our territory," he said.
"I do not consider it correct to move this shield from the United States to Europe," he added.
Fico has criticized the plans in the neighboring Czech Republic for some time already.
He said previously that the U.S. plans divide NATO. The anti-missile system is not yet fully developed and it is even unreliable in certain respects, according to Fico.
Source:Xinhua
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