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The Silver Jan Masaryk Medal [Stříbrná medaile Jana Masaryka], or Jan Masaryk Medal, often simply the Masaryk Medal, also known as the Jan Masaryk Silver Commemorative Medal [Pamětní stříbrná medaile Jana Masaryka] or the Silver Jan Masaryk Medal of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic [Stříbrná medaile Jana Masaryka Ministerstva zahraničních věcí České republiky], is awarded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic (Ministerstvo zahraničních věcí České republiky). It is one of the highest decorations that can also be awarded to non-Czechs.
Jan Masaryk, son of the first Czechoslovak president Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, was Minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia from 1945 to 1948.
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