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Czech Republic to receive assistance worth $106 million from USA

3.10.2022

The United States Congress endorsed a military assistance package for the Czech Republic valued at USD 100 million from the Foreign Military Financing program to bolster modernisation of the Czech Armed Forces and to partly replace the materiel supplies to Ukraine, plus additional USD six million from the Countering Russian Influence Fund for building deployable cyber response teams to be formed in the Czech Armed Forces.

Visegrad Four Defence Ministers discussed Ukraine, intensification of cooperation

3.10.2022

The city of Banská Štiavnica hosted the meeting of the Defence Ministers of the Visegrad Four countries. Their agenda included continuing assistance to Ukraine and particularly the opportunities to strengthen the V4 defence cooperation. The meeting was convened by Slovakia, which holds the V4 Presidency. The Czech Republic was represented by Defence Minister Jana Černochová.

EU-NATO cooperation as the key to Euro-Atlantic Security

26.9.2022

Identifying specific options designed to improve cooperation of EU and NATO defence planning, enhancing planning of the EU defence capabilities and stepping up the implementation of EU capability development targets: those were the objectives of the international seminar called The EU and NATO Defence Planning Coherence held in Prague on September 19-20, 2022, and organised by the Czech Ministry of Defence as part of the Czech Presidency of the Council of the European Union. Besides representatives and experts from the EU Member States and NATO Nations, the seminar was attended by representatives of the European Defence Agency, EU and NATO staffs and the academia.

Czech Defence Ministry welcomed the EU Military Committee as part of the Czech Presidency

23.9.2022

The Russian invasion of Ukraine, European defence cooperation and EU-NATO cooperation were the key topics of the European Union Military Committee Away Days hosted in Prague and Hradec Králové on September 21-23, 2022, as part of the program of the Czech Presidency of the Council of the EU.

Minister of Defence of the Czech Republic Jana Černochová received the U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin in Prague

9.9.2022

On Friday, September 9, Minister of Defence of the Czech Republic Jana Černochová welcomed U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin in Prague. The Ministers discussed assistance to Ukraine and bilateral cooperation.