U.S. President George. W. Bush will pay a two-day working visit to Prague, the capital of the Czech republic, on 4th and 5th June when he will meet Czech leaders to talk about the planned U.S. radar base.

Bush will arrive in Prague in late evening hours on Monday.

All flights scheduled for the evenings on Monday and Tuesday will be delayed by some 30 minutes, the airport's spokeswoman Eva Krejci said.

Apart from the Ruzyne airport, Prague Castle and adjoining streets will also be closed during Bush's visit and traffic on the Prague motorway is likely to be partly restricted.

Bush will be accompanied by John Negroponte, Rice's deputy and the number two person at the U.S. State Department and Stephen Hadley, Bush's assistant for national security affairs.

On Tuesday, Bush will meet Czech President Vaclav Klaus at Prague Castle as well as Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek and senior opposition Social Democrat (CSSD) Chairman Jiri Paroubek.

Bush will mainly discuss the planned stationing of the U.S. missile defense shield in the Czech Republic and Poland. The U.S. would like to construct a radar base in the Brdy training area southwest of Prague.

During the visit, he will deliver a half-an-hour address at a conference on democracy that will be held at the Foreign Ministry on Tuesday afternoon. He will also visit a library in the center of Prague.

Bush will drop in the Czech Republic during his journey to the G8 summit to be held in Germany on June 6-8.

The U.S. made a formal request in January to place a radar base in a military area southwest of Prague and 10 interceptor missiles in neighboring Poland as part of a planned global missile defense shield.

The first round of Czech-U.S. talks on the radar base was completed in May. The talks are to last several months. The U.S. expects the Czechs to give a clear final answer on the base after January 1, 2008.