The presentation took place in the framework of the working visit of the Speaker of the Ukrainian Parliament to the Czech Republic to attend the Conference of the Presidents of the Parliaments of the European Union.
According to the Decree of the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi, Marketa Pekarova Adamova, was awarded the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, II class. Ruslan Stefanchuk personally presented the award to the President of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic during a bilateral meeting.
“I thank all the Czech people and your Parliament for their strong support of Ukraine. This is our important, highest award for foreign citizens. And of course, Ms. Marketa is among the most deserving nominees for the award,” said Ruslan Stefanchuk.
He also added that the Czech Republic is always among the first countries whose decisions and resolutions are important in supporting Ukraine and our fight against the russian aggressor. And it is the Czech Republic, like no other, that understands what it means to win back the values of democracy and civilisation.
In addition, during the meeting, the parties discussed a number of important issues in further cooperation and strengthening of relations at the intergovernmental and parliamentary levels.
In particular, they discussed support for Ukraine’s European integration and Euro-Atlantic progress. The Chairman of the Ukrainian Parliament called on his Czech colleagues to support the decision to start negotiations on Ukraine’s full membership in the EU this year.
“We very much hope that the work of the Ukrainian Parliament and Government, the President of Ukraine and the Ukrainian people will be appreciated by our colleagues from the EU, and Ukraine will be able to open negotiations on full membership this year,” the Chairman of the Ukrainian Parliament said.
Ruslan Stefanchuk also called on the Czech Parliament to support another crucial direction for Ukraine’s future – our path to NATO, which would be an important manifestation of our friendship on the eve of the Alliance’s summit in Vilnius.
He also thanked the Czech Parliament for its important political decision to recognise the Holodomor of 1932-33 as genocide of the Ukrainian people as ‘an important act of historical support for Ukraine’.
He also called for support for the peace formula of the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi.
The Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic, Marketa Pekarova Adamova, thanked for the recognition of her efforts and those of the Czech Parliament in supporting Ukraine and the Ukrainian people, stressing that ‘our great task is the victory of Ukraine’.
“We should not say that Ukraine is fighting, but that it should be a full-fledged victory, that the russian invader should leave the entire territory of Ukraine,” said Marketa Pekarova Adamova.
She also noted that
cooperation at the level of the parliaments of our countries has been very
fruitful recently, and ‘our next task is to bring Ukraine into the EU’.