Stock Photo - Prague Mayor Zdenek Hrib holds a press conference on termination of partnership agreement between Prague and Beijing in Prague City Hall, Prague, Czech Republic, on Thursday, October 10, 2019. Prague approved the Prague-Beijing partnership agreement under its mayor Adriana Krnacova (ANO). In February 2016, the agreement was supported by 35 members representing the ANO movement, the Social Democrats (CSSD), the Communists (KSCM) and a part of the Civic Democrats (ODS) in the 65-seat Prague City Assembly. Especially opposition assembly members but also some politicians of the government alliance of the Greens, Christian Democrats (KDU-CSL) and Mayors and Independents (STAN) criticised the fact that the agreement included an article that Prague recognises the One China principle. Then Prague leaders also said Beijing made this article a precondition of the planned loan of a panda to the Prague Zoo. The current Prague City Council, comprising the Pirates, the Prague to Itself grouping and the Jointly for Prague alliance, was elected in November 2018, called on Beijing to remove the agreement's article on Prague's recognition of One China in January. Prague's political leaders said that Prague was forced to include the article in the agreement and that it had no place in a pact of sister cities. Prague to Itself leader Jan Cizinsky said human rights were certainly more important than a panda in the zoo.(CTK Photo/Katerina Sulova)