President Pavel paying visit to neighbouring Saxony

On a visit to neighbouring Saxony, President Petr Pavel on Friday met for talks with  Saxony’s Minister President Michael Kretschmer to discuss bilateral ties and cross border cooperation.

Mr. Kretschmer said that Pavel's visit on the anniversary of the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1939 was an indication of how far the two states had come in developing trust and good relations. President Pavel said there had been good and bad chapters in Czech and German history and he was glad that the burden of the past had been removed.  "Today we can safely say that we are friends and that we understand each other," Mr. Pavel added.

The two leaders stressed the importance of continued support for Ukraine in its defence against the Russian invasion and Kretschmer praised the Czech initiative to obtain badly-needed ammunition for Ukraine from outside the EU.