The military chief of staff for the Czech Republic receives highest French honour

General Vlastimil Pick, the head of the Czech army, has been awarded the Légion d'Honneur by the French president Nicolas Sarkozy. The French Order of Chivalry is the highest military honour that the French state can give and was awarded to the highest Czech military official in honour of the work Lieutenant General Pick has done to bring the Czech and French armies together during various ventures, including work in Afghanistan. The award was presented in Paris on Friday.