Third round of talks on US radar

Czech and US experts have started a third round of talks on the possibility of siting a US tracking radar on Czech soil. According to the Czech Foreign Ministry the talks are focusing exclusively on the legal and technical details of the plan. A foreign ministry spokesman stressed that Washington's controversial proposal for a Russian presence at the site was not on the agenda. The US proposal was unveiled by US Defense Secretary Robert Gates in Prague last week and caused outrage both among politicians and the public. The Czech prime minister said later that only Russian observers, and not soldiers, might be permitted at the facility, but the proposal remains highly sensitive.