Czech Foreign Minister Tomáš Petříček on Thursday praised Ukraine for
taking steps to resolve the conflict in the east of the country against
pro-Russian separatists on the basis of the Minsk Agreement.
Speaking on the margins of an OSCE conference in the Slovak capital,
Bratislava, he said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had taken
positive unilateral steps to open the door to advancing peace talks,
including withdrawing heavy weapons from the region.
Petříček’s counterpart, Vadym Prystaiko, plans to make an official
visit to the Czech Republic in early February 2020, when the speakers of
the countries’ parliaments are also expected to make bilateral visits.
The foreign ministers also discussed the holding of the first meeting of
the Czech-Ukrainian expert forum and the ninth meeting of the Czech-
Ukrainian intergovernmental commission on economic, industrial, scientific
and technical cooperation.