The Czech government may face a tough task to push through parliament a plan to allow the United States to build a radar base as a part of its planned missile defense, comments by political parties showed on Wednesday.Washington asked the central European NATO ally to host the radar station while neighboring Poland was asked to allow a larger base with rockets meant to shoot down missiles that could be fired from North Korea, Iran or other "rogue regimes." The centre-right Czech government has agreed to start talks on the U.S. request regarding the radar station. The senior right-wing Civic Democrats back the idea in general. "I am deeply convinced that locating the base (here) will raise the safety of the Czech Republic and its citizens," Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek said at a hearing in parliamentary committees on Wednesday, kicking off public debate on the issue. ...
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