EU Affairs Min. Martin Dvořák (STAN) would support two of Pres.Petr Pavel’s pet issues, giving up the EU veto and sending troopsto Ukraine. Dvořák told Czech TV yesterday that now that the CRhas finally earned a nice reputation thanks to the EU presidencyand activities related to Ukraine and is suddenly a relevant player, itwouldn’t be a good idea to brandish around our stubborn defianceto giving up the veto. His recommendation is to declare that we’reprepared to discuss it. He didn’t specifically mention the famous am-munition program for Ukraine, which is being credited to Petr Pavel.Yuri Shvets, a former KGB agent who is now a U.S. citizen and a bigsupporter of Ukraine, spoke about the munitions program in a Rus-sian-language YouTube analysis last week. He said that he personally knows the arms traders who tracked down the shells and thatPavel had no role in it at all. He was merely given the opportunity toboost his political authority, Shvets said. Shvets didn’t explain why,but it’s not unreasonable to suspect that it has something to do withgiving up the EU veto and sending Czechs troops to Ukraine.

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