DUSHANBE, November 5, 2014, Asia-Plus — Tajik Foreign Minister Sirojiddin Aslov yesterday met here with Mr. Hynek Kmonicek, Director of the Department of Foreign Affairs at the Office of the President of the Czech.
Mr. Hynek Pejcha, Ambassador of the Czech Republic to Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, with residence in Tashkent, also attended the meeting.
According to the Tajik MFA information department, the sides discussed issues related to state and prospects of further expansion of bilateral cooperation between Tajikistan and the Czech Republic and broadening legal foundation of economic cooperation between the two countries.
They also exchanged views on regional security, cooperation between Tajikistan and the European Union and the current situation in Afghanistan.
Preparations for the forthcoming official visit of Czech president to Tajikistan were also among major topics of the meeting, the source said.
The President of the Czech Republic Milos Zeman is expected to pay an official visit to Tajikistan in late November.
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.
