PRAGUE, Czech Republic, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- Czech President Vaclav Klaus said the two-thirds of Czechs who oppose plans for a U.S. radar base should have their views respected.
Opposition to the U.S. plan, which would put a radar station outside Prague as part of an international missile defense system, is deeply rooted in the country's history, Klaus told Radio Free Europe Thursday.
The country's decades-long military occupation by the Soviet Union has made Czechs reluctant to accept any large foreign base, he said. And a missile attack by Iran or North Korea is not a large enough threat to justify the radar base to most Czech people.
Klaus also said he plans to criticize "ridiculous and undignified hysteria" over global warming in the United States and Western Europe at the U.N. conference on global warming in September.
