The Prime Minister of the Czech Republic had to blush in front of the Americans for the President’s pro-Russian statements

The Czech Prime Minister Boguslav Sobotka said during his US tour that he would ask President Milos Zeman to discuss in advance with members of the government, which he intends to publicly pronounce. The prime minister announced this in response to the anxiety of American politicians regarding the pro -Russian statements of the President of the Czech Republic. They guess whether this is a reversal in the country's policy and the departure from the pan -European vector.

During a meeting in the Washington Foreign Policy Council, Boguslav Sobotka patiently explained that "the Czech Republic condemns Russian aggression, but generally does not consider Russia an enemy. After all, Russia is still an ally of the West on many issues, for example, in the fight against international terrorism. Russia, apparently, considers its sphere of influence and the possible integration of Ukraine considers it an attack on Ukraine. the sphere of its influence, ” Radio.cz reports his words.

“He (the president) should consult and discuss in advance some of his statements and positions. But this, of course, depends on him. We, as the government, have no influence on the president elected by direct vote ... We will discuss exactly what happened in the last three or four weeks with Pan,” the prime minister reports.

Sobotka in the United States and the fact of invitation by Milos Zeman President Vladimir Putin to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camp in the Polish Auschwitz. Such an invitation against the backdrop of sanctions and conflict in eastern Ukraine was outraged by Western politicians. However, the Czech prime minister believes that this corresponds to historical justice: the Red Army liberated Auschwitz, which means Putin, as the head of Russia, the heiress of the Soviet Union, should be present among guests. “I understand that this issue in the current days and months is very painful, but it is necessary that the invitation of the Russian president is not pulled out of context. The Czech Republic is preparing for the celebrations of the 70th anniversary of the release of Auschwitz. This is the International Day of the Holocaust Victims. Some time ago, we began to organize a two -day campaign with Jewish organizations,” 420on.cz quoted him.

Recall that the last statements of the President of the Czech Republic Milos Zeman, according to the situation in Ukraine, were the reason for the call on November 20 to the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry of the Czech Republic of Ivan Poduha, to which "in the course of the conversation, the position of Ukraine was set out for the unacceptability of" such statements of the president. The incident was caused by a Zeman interview to the Russian first channel on Sunday, November 16, in which the Czech president criticized anti -Russian sanctions from the West.

In the Czech Republic on November 17, a demonstration took place , the participants of which opposed the policy of the authorities. At least 2500 people gathered at a rally in Prague and held red cards in their hands, thereby implying the resignation of the president of the Czech Republic. "Pan President became president thanks to us, but he does not fulfill his duties in the same way, according to our ideas, he must," then said the organizer of the action, Martin Prshilil.

Among other things, the demonstrators accused President Milos Zeman of supporting politics by Vladimir Putin. So, in April of this year, the head of the Czech Republic called on European powers to come to terms with the accession of Crimea to Russia. "Crimea, no matter what we declared, will not be returned to Ukraine in the foreseeable future. And the Western powers, or rather the European Union, should come to terms with this," he said.

In September of this year, a video of the speech of Milos Zeman appeared on the Web on the forum "Dialogue of civilizations" on the island of Rhodes, in which the president in Russian called for the abolition of sanctions against Russia. “The problems of Ukraine, where, fortunately, the civil war ended, is a kind of flu,” Zeman said then. “However, there is another disease - cancer ... This threat is called the Islamic State , so we must, together, fight together with international terrorism.”