"There will be no radar built on Zengo," a nature reserve in southern Hungary, Gyurcsany said after a meeting with President Laszlo Solyom.

Instead, Gyurcsany said, the radar station -- the third such NATO installation in Hungary -- would be built on the Nagy-Tubes summit, which is near Zengo but is not a nature reserve, where there is already a military site.

Green protestors blocked the road to Zengo in February 2004 to prevent the construction of the radar station.

After his election as president in June, Solyom, a former head of the constitutional court and a passionate environmentalist who was among the Zengo protestors, vowed to block the construction of the radar station on protected land.

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