Petr Pavel will assume his role as president in March and has said that one of his first visits abroad will be to Kyiv to reiterate his country’s support for Ukraine
Petr Pavel, a former army general who served as chairman of NATO's military committee, won yesterday’s second and final round of the Czech presidential election, defeating the country’s former populist prime minister Andrej Babis.
Since 2006, same-sex couples in the Czech Republic have been able to enter into registered partnerships. As a United Nations peacekeeper during the Bosnian war, Mr Pavel was later awarded the Legion d'honneur by France for leading the rescue of 53 French peacekeepers trapped between Serb and Croat forces in 1993.
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