The Czech parliament called on the government to designate Hezbollah in its entirety as a terrorist group, in a resolution passed on Wednesday.
The Czech Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of the parliament in Prague, voted 63-7 to adopt the motion calling the Lebanese Shi’ite group “an indivisible whole and a terrorist organisation that significantly destabilises the Middle East region and, through its global network, also threatens all democracies”.
The Czech Republic does not currently have its own list of terrorist organisations, and the legislature called to establish one and put Hezbollah on it.
The resolution added that the parliament “rejects the misleading division of this organisation into military and political parts, as this organisation acts as an internally interlinked structure”.
Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi thanked the Czech parliament on Thursday, saying that the decision follows similar decisions made by other countries in the EU and Latin America in the past months.
The news comes after Guatemala and Estonia announced last week they will proscribe Hezbollah. This year, Germany and Lithuania also banned the organisation.
