The Ambassador of the Czech Republic in Chisinau Zdenek Krejci said he is glad that the Czech Government decided to declare the Republic of Moldova a priority state in the development cooperation for 2018-2023. “We hope the political developments after the parliamentary elections of next February will make the utilization of all the possibilities that derive from this conclusion real,” the official stated in an event held to celebrate the National Day of the Czech Republic, IPN reports.
“This event is an occasion for assessing the relations between our nations during the past year. I’m glad I can say that despite the less favorable situation, the parliamentary elections in the Czech Republic, the pre-electoral period and other serious events similar to those in the Republic of Moldova, the fruitful dialogue continued at different levels. We are glad that despite political turbulence, the commercial exchanges grow rapidly and both imports from the Czech Republic and exports from the Republic of Moldova have considerably increased,” noted the diplomat.
Zdenek Krejci said 2018 is a very special year for the Czech people. “We celebrate the 100th anniversary of the formation of our modern state. It is an important event even if the Czechs have a long tradition of their statehood. Practically all the states that were founded in Europe that year continue to exist. But the developments between 1918 and 2018 were often very dramatic. The Republic of Czechoslovakia from before the war stooped existing as a result of the Nazi occupation of 1939. We regained our independence in 1945 following the liberation by the Soviet Army, with the important participation of troops of the Romanian Army, but lost it again as a result of the Communist coup of 1948. In the 1960s, we tried to reform the Communist state into a Democratic and Socialist one, but this effort ended with the suppression of the Prague Spring of 1968. And we were forced to live in the period of stagnation of Socialism for another 21 years, until the Velvet Revolution of 1989,” stated the Czech diplomat.
The ambassador noted that in 1992, the Slovaks and the Czechs decided to create their own states, but the majority considered Czechoslovakia shouldn’t have been destroyed then as it was the foundations based on which these states continued to develop in new circumstances. The current relations are excellent. The Czech Republic wants to be a place for meetings between friends in all the areas, with experiences gained in the past, and does not want to be a bridge that would be crossed by everyone with heavy steps.
“We want to form part of the Western democratic and prosperous hemisphere. We aimed to improve our security and thus joined NATO. We wanted to improve our welfare and political and economic influence, acting in close cooperation with similar nations and thus joined the European Union. We do not want to impose these decisions on anyone, but are ready to share our experience and knowledge of the successes and failures we experienced in time,” stated the ambassador.
