Foreign Ministry: Pavel’s views on Trump not those of Czechia

The Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs has expressed regret about comments made by President Petr Pavel about the US head of state, Donald Trump. In a statement issued on Sunday, the ministry said Mr. Pavel’s views did not represent the official position of the Czech government.

Mr. Pavel said recently that Mr. Trump had done more to undermine NATO’s credibility in weeks that Russia’s Vladimir Putin had in several years.

The minister of foreign affairs, Petr Macinka, has had a number of clashes with the Czech president, who refused to appoint his party colleague Filip Turek to a ministerial post.