DUSHANBE, November 26, 2014, Asia-Plus — Tajikistan and the Czech Republic have vowed to boost bilateral cooperation.
Tajik President Emomali Rahmon today met here with his Czech counterpart Milos Zeman to discuss state and prospects of further expansion of bilateral cooperation between their countries.
The Tajik president’s official website report that President Rahmon noted that the Czech Republic occupies a special place in Tajikistan’s foreign policy “as mutually beneficial cooperation between the two countries existed even before Tajikistan gained independence.”
Tajik leader reportedly expressed confidence that useful political, economic and cultural ties between the two countries will develop in the future as well.
President Zeman, for his part, noted that the Czech Republic and Tajikistan have good potential for further expansion of many-sided cooperation.
Milos Zeman is the third and current President of the Czech Republic, in office since 8 March 2013. Previously he served as the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic from 1998 to 2002. As leader of the Czech Social Democratic Party during the 1990s, he transformed it into one of the country”s major parties. He was Chairman of the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of the Czech parliament, from 1996 to 1998. In January 2013, Zeman was elected as President of the Czech Republic. He is the first directly elected President in Czech history; both of his predecessors, Vaclav Havel and Vaclav Klaus, were elected by the Parliament.
