Gitanas Nausėda will deliver a keynote address at the international conference Russia’s Hybrid War against the Democratic World: A Challenge to European Remembrance Policy, and will meet with President Miloš Zeman and Prime Minister Petr Fiala of the Czech Republic.
On Wednesday, President Gitanas Nausėda will have a bilateral meeting with Czech President Miloš Zeman to discuss key issues in bilateral relations, security policy, sanctions against Russia and support for Ukraine.
Afterwards, the President will visit the Klementinum Library where he will see valuable exhibits related to Lithuania, as well as memorial sites in Prague that are significant both for Lithuania and the Czech Republic, such as the plaque to Patriarch of the Lithuanian Nation Dr. Jonas Basanavičius, the tomb of the first Czech President Václav Havel, and the Velvet Revolution Memorial.
On Wednesday afternoon, the President is scheduled to visit the headquarters of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) in Prague and to give an interview to the TV channel Current Time.
On Thursday morning, President Gitanas Nausėda will meet with Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala to discuss key issues on the EU agenda, support for Ukraine and preserving Europe’s historical memory. At the Liechtenstein Palace in Prague, the Lithuanian and Czech leaders will jointly open an exhibition Under the Alien Skies: Lithuanian People in Soviet Hard Labor Camps and Exile in 1940–1958.
The President’s keynote at the international conference Russia’s Hybrid War against the Democratic World: A Challenge to the European Memory Policy will address the issue of the proper evaluation of communist regimes and their crimes in Europe.
The international conference is organized by the Government of the Czech Republic, which holds the EU Presidency, the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, and the Memorial Museum of the 20th Century. It will bring together historians studying the crimes of totalitarian regimes, as well as researchers investigating disinformation and propaganda.
The working visit will close with a meeting with Lithuanian culture and science community based in the Czech Republic and an interview for the Czech Radio.
