Bilateral Relations
Diplomatic relations (date of establishment)
India: 1. 1. 1993
Bangladesh: 1. 3. 1993
Sri Lanka: 15. 2. 1993
Nepal: 1. 1. 1993
Maldives: 1. 1. 1993
Bhutan: 2. 12. 2012
Official visits
INDIA | Czech Dignitaries to India |
15.03.1993 | Minister of Trade and Industry Vladimír Dlouhý |
20.–21.06.1993 | Minister of Foreign Affairs Josef Zieleniec |
07.–11.02.1994 | President Václav Havel |
29.03.1996 | Deputy Foreign Minister Helena Bambasová |
11.04.1997 | Deputy Foreign Minister Cyril Svoboda |
17.10.1997 | Minister of Trade and Industry Karel Kuhnl |
09.–12.03.1999 | Chairman of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic Václav Klaus |
09.–13.02.2001 | Minister of Defence Vladimír Vetchý |
11.–14.03.2001 | Prime Minister Miloš Zeman |
11.–14.03.2001 | Minister of Trade and Industry Miroslav Grégr |
11.–14.03.2001 | Minister of Finance Pavel Mertlík |
11.–14.03.2001 | Minister of Agriculture Jan Fencl |
27.–31.08.2002 | Minister of Trade and Industry Jiří Rusnok |
04.–08.01.2003 | Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry Miroslav Somol |
03.–07.02.2003 | Minister of Trade and Industry Jiří Rusnok |
03.–07.02.2003 | Minister of Defence Jaroslav Tvrdík |
15.–21.11.2003 | Delegation of Chamber of Deputies and Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic |
12.–19.12.2004 | Deouty Minister of Trade and Industry Miroslav Somol |
07.–13.02.2005 | Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Transport Milan Šimonovský |
05.–06.09.2005 | Deputy Foreign Minister Pavel Svoboda |
06.–13.11.2005 | President Mr. Václav Klaus |
17.–19.01.2006 | Prime Minister Mr. Jiří Paroubek |
11.–15.03.2007 | Deputy Foreign Minister Mrs. Helena Bambasová |
18.–21.11.2007 | Minister of Foreign Affairs Mr. Karel Schwarzenberg |
02.–06.12.2007 | President of the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic Mr. P. Sobotka |
13.–17.11.2008 | Minister of Trade and Industry Mr. Martin Říman |
20.01.2009 | Deputy Minister of Environment Mr. K. Bláha (EU Troika) |
05.02.2009 | Minister of Environment Mr. Martin Bursík (CZ PRES) |
06.–12.12.2009 | Deputy Minister of Education, Youth and Sports Mr. V. Růžička |
16.–22.02.2010 | Deputy Foreign Affairs Mr. H. Kmoníček (DEFEXPO) |
11.–12.05.2010 | Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry Mr. L. Vaněk (Czech Technology Days) |
23.–26.05.2010 | Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry Mr. M. Hovorka |
28.–29.10.2010 | Deputy Minister of Environment Mr. I. Hlaváč |
25.–28.10.2010 | Deputy Minister of Transport Mr. I. Vykydal |
31.10.–03.11.2010 | Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry Mr. M. Hovorka (8. Joint Economic Commission) |
20.–26.01.2011 | Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry Mr. M.Hovorka (IMTEX 2011 Bangalore) |
08.–13.05.2011 | Official visit of President of the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic Mr. M. Štěch in Delhi and Mumbai |
06.–07.06.2011 | Deputy Foreign Minister Mr. T. Dub (political consultations) |
27.–28.09.2011 | Deputy Minister of Defence Mr. R. Blažek (4. Joint Defence Commission) |
09.–11.10.2011 | Official visit of Minister of Trade and Industry Mr. M. Kocourek accompanied by Committee on Economic Affairs of the Chamber of Deputies and business delegation |
22.–24.03.2012 | Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry Mr. M. Hovorka (India Engineering Sourcing Show in Mumbai) |
28.–30.03.2012 | Minister of Defence Mr. A. Vondra accompanied by business delegation (DEFEXPO) |
09.–14.10.2012 | Deputy Minister of Agriculture Mr. Radek Braum accompanied by business delegation |
11.–15.03.2013 | Minister of Industry and Trade Mr. Martin Kuba accompanied by business delegation |
07.–11.11.2013 | Minister of Foreign Affairs Mr. J. Kohout |
10.–12.02.2014 | Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Mr. Tomáš Dub |
28.–30.01.2015 | Minister of Industry and Trade Mr. Jan Mládek |
18.–20.02.2015 | Minister of defence Martin Stropnický (fair AERO INDIA) |
19.–24.03.2015 | Vice-President of the Chamber of deputies of the Czech Parliament Vojtěch Filip, Vice-Chairman of the Economic Committee of the PSP Martin Kolovratník, Stepan Stupčuk and Vaclav Snopek |
26.–30.04.2015 | The Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Security of the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic František Bublan and Senators Hassan Mezian, Patrik Kunčar and Jozef Regec |
27.10.–01.11.2015 | Member of Parliament Radim Holecek (Delhi) |
21.–23.11.2015 | Philologist Jaroslav Vacek (participation in the International Conference of Indologists at the invitation of the President of India Mr. Pranab Mukherjee |
24.–26.11.2015 | Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic Jiri Koliba in the head Czech business delegation (engineering fair Mumbai, HEC Ranchi, Delhi)) |
16.–19.03.2016 | Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic Jiri Koliba in the head of the business delegation (fair INDIA AVIATION in Hydrabad) |
28.–30.03.2016 | Deputy Secretary of Defense Thomas Kuchta headed the business delegation (including DEFEXPO in Goa) |
24.–30.04.2016 | The Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Chamber of deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic, Karel Schwarzenberg and members Pavel Holik, Leo Luzar and Rom Kostrica |
18. – 20. 12 2016 | Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic Lubomír Zaorálek in India |
1. – 5. 3. 2017 | working visit by Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Martin Smolek |
25.-28.03.2017 | Minister of Labour and Social Affairs of the Czech Republic Mrs. Michaela Marksova Tominova attending Global Economic Summit in Mumbai |
29.05.-3.06.2017 | Deputy Speaker of the Parliament of the Czech Republic Mr. Radek Vondracek and other members of Czech Parliamentary Delegation |
11.09.2017 | Minister of Culture of the Czech Republic Mr. Daniel Herman |
16.-19.10.2017 | Chief of the Defence Forces of the Czech Republic Gen. Josef Becvar |
22. - 26. 11. 2017 |
working visit of Dušan Navrátil, Director of the National Office for Cyber and Information Security |
04.-08.03.2018 | Minister of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic Mr. Tomas Huner in Delhi, Aurangabad and Chennai |
17.-19.01.2019 | Prime Minister of the Czech Republic Hon'ble Mr. Andrej Babis with Minister of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic Mrs. Marta Novakova and Vice-President of the Government Council for Research and Development Mr. Karel Havlicek in Ahmedabad, Pune and Delhi |
13. 1 – 16.1. 2020 | working visit to India by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic Tomas Petricek |
26. 2. - 1. 3. 2023 | official visit of the Minister of Foreign Affaires of the Czech Republic Jan Lipavsky |
3.12. - 7. 12. 2023 | official visit of the Minister of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic Jozef Sikela |
9. 1. - 11. 1. 2024 | official visit of the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic H. E. Petr Fiala (Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit and visit to Jaipur, Rajasthan) |
INDIA |
Indian Dignitaries to the Czech Republic |
October 1996 | President S.D. Sharma |
June 2000 | Speaker of the Parliament G.M.C. Balayogi |
February 2002 | Minister of State for External Affairs Omar Abdullah |
September 2002 | Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises B. V. Patil |
June 2003 | Minister of Power A. Geete |
September 2003 | Minister of State for External Affairs D. Singh |
October 2003 | Minister of Defence G. Fernandes |
08.–09.09.2008 | Minister of State for External Affairs A. Sharma |
October 2008 | Minister of Trade and Industry K. Nath |
29.06.2009 | Minister of External Affairs S.M.Krishna (Troika EU-India) |
26.02.2010 | Secretary to Minister of External Affairs V. Katju (political consultation) |
06.–08.06.2010 | Vicepresident and Chairman of Rajya Sabha M. H. Ansari |
November 2010 | Air Chief Marshal Chairman of Chiefs of Staffs Committee P.V. Naik |
24.–25.06.2011 | Chairman of Atomic Energy Commission of India and Secretary of Atomic Energy Department Dr. Srikumar Banerjee |
13.–16.06.2011 | Minister of Coal Sriprakash Jaiswal |
09.–11.09.2012 | Minister of Commerce Anand Sharma |
31.10.–03.11.2012 | State Minister of External Affairs Preneet Kaur |
12.-15.09.2016 | Chief of the Army Staff Gen. Dalbir Singh |
20.-23.10.2016 | Minister of Railways Shri Suresh Prabhu |
09.-13.10.2017 | Minister of State for Commerce & Industry C. R. Chaudhary and Chief Minister of Jharkhand Shri Raghubar Das in Brno |
15. – 18. 11. 2017 |
working visit by the Minister of Taxation, Urban Development, Trade and Industry of the Indian state of Chhattisgarh Amar Agrawal |
06.-09.09.2018 | President of India Hon'ble Ram Nath Kovind in Prague |
SRI LANKA | |
13.–16.08.1999 | Deputy Foreign Minister of the Czech Republic Mr. H. Kmoníček |
23.–25.01.2001 | Chief of the General Staff of the Army of the Czech Republic Mr. J. Šedivý |
13.–16.02.2001 | Minister of Defence of the Czech Republic Mr. V. Vetchý |
13.–14.03.2005 | Deputy Foreign Minister of the Czech Republic Mr. P. Svoboda |
20.06.2007 | State Secretary of Sri Lanka Mr. Palitha Kohona |
27.06.2007 | Speaker of the Parliament of Sri Lanka W.J.M. Lokkubandara |
12.–13.11.2007 | State Secretary Palitha Kohona (political consultations) |
12.–13.05.2009 | Deputy Foreign Minister Mrs. H. Bambasová (EU Troika) |
28.–29.03.2011 | Minister of External Affairs of Sri Lanka Prof. G. L. Peiris |
16.–18.04.2011 | Minister of Environment of the Czech Republic Mr. Ivo Hlaváč |
08.–11.05.2011 | Minister of Petroleum Industries of Sri Lanka Mr. Sushil Premajayantha |
01.–05.06.2011 | Deputy Foreign Minister of the Czech Republic Mr. T. Dub (political consultations) |
13.10.2011 | Minister of Trade and Industry of the Czech Republic Mr. M. Kocourek accompanied by the Committee on Economic Affairs of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic and business delegation |
21.–23.03.2012 | First Deputy Minister of External Affairs of Sri Lanka Mr. N. Perera accompanied by the delegation of the Parliament of Sri Lanka |
19.–24.11.2012 | Foreign Committee of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament |
27.–31.03.2013 | Minister of Economic Development of Sri Lanka Mr. Basil Rajapakse and Minister of Environment of Sri Lanka Mr. S. Premajayantha |
06.11.2013 |
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic Mr. J. Kohout |
09.–11.06.2016 | Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sri Lanka Mr. Mangala Samaraweera paid an official visit to the Czech Republic |
04.-07.05.2017 | Junior Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic Mr. Ivan Jancarek as head of the Czech Business Delegation |
15.-19.05.2018 | Minister of Foreign Affairs Tilak Marapana visited the Czech Republic |
20.-21.09.2018 | President of the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic Mr. Milan Stech and head of the Czech Business Delegation |
NEPAL | |
27.–28.06.2001 | Deputy Foreign Minister of the Czech Republic Mr. Hynek Kmoníček |
19.–31.03.2006 | Director General of the Ministry of Foerign Affairs Mrs. Helena Bambasová |
02.–06.11.2011 | Deputy Minister of Environment Mr. I. Hlaváč and Deputy Minister of Environment Mr. T. Tesař accompanied by business delegation |
09.–12.02.2013 | Ambassador Mr. Miloslav Stašek accompanied by business delegation |
03.–09.06.2014 | Delegation of Foreign Committee of Chamber of Deputies of Parliament of the Czech Republic |
29.01.2015 | Minister of Industry and Trade Mr. Jan Mládek |
17.-20.09.2016 | Deputy Speaker of the Parliament of the Czech Republic Mr. Vojtěch Filip, Chairman of Constitutional and Legal Affairs Committee of the Chamber of Deputies of Parliament of the Czech Republic Mr. Jeroným Tejc, and Deputy Chairmen of the same Committee Mr. Stanislav Grospič and Mr. Radek Vondráček and member Lukáš Pleticha |
BANGLADESH |
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2001 | Director General of Ministry of Foreign Affairs Mr. J. Husák |
08.–9.06.2009 | Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic Mrs. H. Bambasová (EU Troika) |
10.–11.03.2013 | Minister of Industry and Trade Mr. Martin Kuba |
01.–05.04.2017 | Working trip of the parliamentary delegation to the 136th meeting of the Interparliamentary Union |
21.–22.05.2019 | Minister of Trade Tipu Munshi visited the Czech Republic |
MALDIVES | |
16.–19.08.1999 | Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic Mr. Hynek Kmoníček |
22.08.2018 | Minister of Fisheries and Agriculture visited the Czech Republic |
BHUTAN | |
29.06.–02.07.2001 | Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic Mr. Hynek Kmoníček |
08.03.–11.03.2007 | Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic Mrs. Helena Bambasová |
06.–09.02.2013 | Deputy Minister of Environment Mr. Tomáš Tesař accompanied by business delegation |
08.–10.11.2013 | Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic Mr. J. Kohout |
12.–15.02.2014 | Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Mr. Tomáš Dub |
04.–07.06.2014 | Delegation of Foreign Committee of Chamber of Deputies of Parliament of the Czech Republic |
duben 2015 | Queen Mother Ashi Sangay Choden Wangchuck visited the Czech Republic |
08.05.2017 | Dr Saamdu Chetri, Executive Director the Gross National Happiness Centre visited Czech Republic |
07.– 12.09.2017 | Minister of Culture of the Czech Republic visited Bhutan |