17.07.2008 - Czech Senate passes bill in support, appreciation of war veterans
The legislation also enables the promotion of the veterans who no longer serve in the military due to their age or health condition.
"The promotion to senior military ranks is to highlight not only their merits, but also to morally reward their war-time activities," Defence Minister Vlasta Parkanova (Christian Democrats, KDU-CSL) said previously.
She said she would like to promote some veterans on the 90th anniversary of Czechoslovakia's establishment this autumn.
If signed by President Vaclav Klaus, the bill would come into force on October 1.
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Soldiers from foreign missions who were sacked from the army for disciplinary reasons will not be included either.
The Defence Ministry wants to provide a food contribution to those veterans who do not want to use the offer of army canteens.
It is ready to spend over 11 million crowns on the purpose annually.
According to estimates, there are about 3500 World War Two veterans in the Czech Republic as well as 16,000 veterans from peace-keeping missions, the 1991 Gulf War, and the missions in Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq.
The law defines the veteran as a Czech citizen with a certificate on participation in the struggle for national liberation in 1939-1945 or at least a 30-day service in a foreign mission.
($1=14.614 crowns)
(Ceske Noviny)
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