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Czech president not to attend military parade in Moscow

Xinhua, April 10, 2015 Adjust font size:

Czech presidential spokesman Jiri Ovcacek announced at a press conference on Friday that Czech President Milos Zeman had decided not to attend the military parade during the 70th anniversary victory celebrations in Moscow on May 9.

Instead, he would honor the World War II victims by laying a wreath during the ceremony, the spokesman added.

Ovcacek said Zeman would meet with Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico when the parade was taking place in Moscow, a meeting which would be symbolic in reference because the Red Army liberated the Czechs and Slovaks in 1945.

According to Ovacek, Zeman is to go to Poland on May 7 where he will visit Westerplatte, the peninsula near Gdansk where World War II started when Nazi Germany invaded Poland on Sept. 1, 1939.

On May 8, the Czech national holiday, Zeman will take part in the traditional commemorative act at the Prague Vitkov Hill. Later on May 8, Zeman flies to Moscow and on May 9, the president will honour the Red Army war dead during the liberation of former Czechoslovakia, said Ovcacek. Endit