President biden mr. Prime minister, welcome, welcome, welcome. I was reminiscing with the Prime Minister very briefly before you walked in the door. 25 years ago, almost the day i was standing on the senate floor arguing for the admission of czech czech slovakia at the time, and that was pretty good. And weve only grown stronger as the United States and Czech Republic. Together were deep in defense cooperation and to ensure the safety of our people as well as including the modernization of your military force to purchase an f35 aircraft and hilos. Its amazing what youre doing. And together were going to bolster our Energy Security and expand our clean power. Were going to get to talk about that in some detail a little bit. And together, i cant tell you how much we appreciate your outspokenness and the support of people of the Czech Republic with defending the people of ukraine as defined by what youve done and just continue to speak out. I want to thank you for helping, Prime Minister, to help secure nearly one million rounds of ammunition for ukraine, and were committed to doing our part. But congress has to pass the continued funding which is significant from the United States and pass our Bipartisan National Security bill and do it now. Now. Theres overwhelming support in the house and senate, if theyd just let a vote take place. And you know, because as the chum republic remembers the Czech Republic remembers, russia wont stop in ukraine, and the impact on nato will be significant. Putin is going to keep going, including europe, the United States and the entire world at risk if we dont stop him in ukraine. So, mr. Prime minister, thank you again for being here today. I look forward to our discussion and really delighted youre here. Really delighted youre here. The floor is yours. Mr. President , thank you very much for your invitation to come. Its nice to be here. Relations between our country are now very strong. And they have had a long tradition, the United States has had a main role in founding a independent czech and our first president had an american vibe and the Czech Community in the u. S. Is large as well as abroad. I can mention Madeleine Albright is an excellent example. She was the u. S. Secretary of state but also from prague. President biden we know it all the time. Mr. Fiala and most importantly, we share the same values, human rights, freedom, democracy, and we need to deal with challenges like russian aggression in ukraine, terrorism, difficult situation in the middle east. And in such a situation, the Security Cooperation between democratic country is a must. Mr. President , i appreciate your leadership in support of ukraine. We are also doing our best to help you and stop putins aggression. In 1968, i was a little boy. In 1968, i saw russian tanks in the streets of my town, and i dont want to see this again. So we must continue to help ukraine as long as possible and why we started the Czech Ammunition Initiative to provide ukraine with hundreds of thousands of artillery shells very soon. It will happen in the next few weeks or months. And also with most ukrainian refugees per capita in europe may be in the world. The International Situation is very difficult globally and our cooperation is very important for the stability in central and eastern europe. And you mentioned, i am glad that my government made some important decisions in security. We agreed on the different Corporation Agreement and decided to get 35 fighter jets for czech army. This is very important. It will make our cooperation and security much stronger. Also, business relations are developing very well. Our trade exchange is bigger every year. And we have now some Czech Companies investing millions of dollars in the u. S. And employing thousands of americans. I am very proud of that. Mr. President , i believe my visit will make our relations stronger and will bring more benefits for our countries. I look forward to our meeting and i will be happy to discuss these things in detail. Thank you once again, mr. President , for your invitation and kind welcoming. President biden youre a great ally. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2024]