Czech and Slovak Transatlantic Award

The Czech and Slovak Transatlantic Award (CSTA) is an original initiative of the Jagello 2000 Association for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation from the Czech Republic and implemented jointly by Jagello 2000 and the Slovak Atlantic Commission since 2012.

Czech and Slovak Transatlantic Award

Within this initiative, the two organizations annually recognize personalities, who have substantially contributed to freedom and democracy in Central Europe, to strengthening of the transatlantic relations and integration of Central Europe to Euro-Atlantic Institutions. The Awards are presented two times a year – in Spring in Slovakia at the Bratislava Global Security Forum GLOBSEC and in Autumn at the NATO Days in Ostrava & Czech Air Force Days in Ostrava, Czech Republic. The awardees are Czech, Slovak and international diplomatic and military personalities.

Honorary Committee

The CSTA awardees are chosen by the Honorary Committee, created for this purpose from distinguished personalities from the diplomatic, political and military areas of the Czech and Slovak Republics. Members of the Honorary Committee are:[1]

  • Mikuláš Dzurinda, Former Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Slovakia
  • Ján Figeľ, Deputy Speaker of the National Council of the Slovak Republic, Former Member of the European Commission
  • Štefan Füle, former European Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy
  • Rastislav Káčer, President of the Slovak Atlantic Commission and Ambassador of the Slovak Republic to Hungary
  • Jan Kohout, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic
  • Amb. Ivan Korčok, Permanent Representative of the Slovak Republic to the European Union
  • Gen. Pavel Macko, 2nd Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Slovak Republic
  • Zbyněk Pavlačík, CEO & Co-Founder of Jagello 2000
  • Martin Povejšil, Head of the Permanent Representation of the Czech Republic to the EU
  • Jiří Schneider, Former First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic
  • Gen. (Ret). Jiří Šedivý, Former Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Czech Republic
  • Maroš Šefčovič, Vice President of the European Commission.

List of Awardees

Year Place Awardee
2012 Bratislava Ron Asmus (in memoriam),[2] prominent US diplomat and political analyst
Alexandr Vondra,[2] former Minister of Defence of the Czech Republic
Ostrava Jozef Stank (in memoriam), former Minister of Defence of Slovakia
Gen. (Ret.) Klaus Naumann, former Chairman of the NATO Military Committee
2013 Bratislava Jan Krzysztof Bielecki,[3] former Prime Minister and Minister for European Integration of Poland
Oldřich Černý (in memoriam),[3] former Director General of the Czech Foreign Intelligence Service
Ostrava Gen. (Ret.) David Petraeus,[4] former Commander of the ISAF and Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
Eduard Kukan,[4] former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Slovakia
2014 Bratislava Karel Kovanda,[5] Former Permanent Representative of the Czech Republic to the North Atlantic Council and Western European Union
Anders Fogh Rasmussen,[5] NATO Secretary General and Former Prime Minister of Denmark
Ostrava Martin Bútora,[6] Honorary President of Institute for Public Affairs, former Slovak Ambassador to the USA
Bronisław Komorowski,[6] President of the Polish Republic
2015 Bratislava Carl Bildt, former Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sweden
Prof. Otto Pick, founder and former Director of the Institute of International Relations Prague
Ostrava Tomasz Siemoniak, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defence of the Republic of Poland
František Šebej, Slovak Politician and Academic
2016 Bratislava Madeleine Albright, Former U.S. Secretary of State
Michael Žantovský, Czech diplomat, politician and author
Ostrava Daniel Fried, U.S. diplomat
2017 Bratislava Michael Chertoff, former United States Secretary of Homeland Security
Luboš Dobrovský, Czech journalist, former Czechoslovak Minister of Defence
Ostrava Gen. (Ret.) Philip M. Breedlove, former Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR)
Pavol Demeš, former Slovak Minister of International Relations

Artist's design

Original creation of the renowned Slovak glass-designer Patrik Illo, the Czech and Slovak Transatlantic Award symbolizes the transatlantic link by opposite side edges through transparent glass.

References

  1. ↑ "GLOBSEC Gala Dinner official page". 8 April 2013. Retrieved 20 May 2013.
  2. 1 2 "Vondra a americký diplomat Asmus dostali cenu za přínos bezpečnosti a stabilitě". Mladá fronta DNES (in Czech). iDnes. 13 April 2012. Retrieved 15 October 2012.
  3. 1 2 "Havlův poradce Černý a expremiér Bielecki dostali transatlantickou cenu". Mladá fronta DNES (in Czech). iDnes. 19 April 2013. Retrieved 20 May 2013.
  4. 1 2 "Král David v Ostravě. Exšéf CIA, jenž skončil kvůli milence, dostal cenu". Mladá fronta DNES (in Czech). iDnes. 20 September 2013. Retrieved 21 September 2013.
  5. 1 2 "Rasmussen and Kovanda to Receive Czech and Slovak Transatlantic Awards".
  6. 1 2 "Poradca prezidenta Kisku získal Českú a slovenskú transatlantickú cenu". 22 September 2014.
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