PRAGUE (AP) — Czech President Milos Zeman and the U.S. ambassador to Prague are in a rare public dispute over Zeman’s decision to attend a Russian military parade, and the country’s prime minister together with Czech lawmakers are siding with the American.
In an interview with online publication Parlamentni Listy on Sunday, Zeman bristled at the envoy’s implied criticism of his decision to attend Moscow’s traditional May 9 military parade despite the crisis in Ukraine.
Parliament’s lower house speaker, Jan Hamacek, said he thought Zeman was overreacting; the deputy speaker of Parliament’s upper house, Premysl Sobotka, said Zeman demonstrated a lack of …read more
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
