Nearly 1,000 people rallied in Prague Monday to protest U.S. plans to build a missile defense radar base in the Czech Republic.

Nearly 1,000 people rallied in Prague on Nov. 17, 2008, to protest U.S. plans to build a missile defense radar base in the Czech Republic.[Xinhua]

Holding banners and posts reading "No U.S. base needed here" and "76 percent citizens against radar base," the demonstrators chanted slogans like "referendum, referendum" during the day-long protest.

A demonstrator told Xinhua that there should be no more foreign troops in the Eastern European country. The man also believed the U.S. radar base will be aimed at Russia, not Iran or the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

The United States on July 9 signed a treaty with the Czech Republic on construction of a missile defense radar base, which would mean the stationing of foreign troops in the country for the first time since the 1968 Soviet invasion.

The march was organized by the No to Bases group which was established in 2006. Along with over 40 other groups, it has organized many rallies across the country in protest of the establishment of the U.S. radar base.

Nearly 1,000 people rallied in Prague on Nov. 17, 2008, to protest U.S. plans to build a missile defense radar base in the Czech Republic.[Xinhua]

(Xinhua News Agency November 18, 2008)