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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

 
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 

 

Czech Presidency of the Council of the European Union

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Date: 01 July 2022 - 31 December 2022

Czech Republic will take over from France the Presidency of the Council of the European Union from 1 July 2022 for the period of six months. more ►

Meeting of Ministers of Environment

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On Thursday 2 June 2022, world leaders and representatives from government, business, international organizations, civil society and youth gathered in Sweden for Stockholm+50 an international meeting to drive action towards a healthy planet… more ►

Working Visit of the Ambassador M. Hovorka to the Maldives

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On October 6 and 7, 2021, Ambassador of the Czech Republic Milan Hovorka made a working visit to the capital of the Republic of Maldives Malé with the aim of opening the historically first Honorary… more ►

Working Visit of the Ambassador M. Hovorka to Nepal

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Due to the upcoming ending of the diplomatic mission, the Ambassador of the Czech Republic to Nepal based in Delhi, Milan Hovorka, visited Kathmandu from 2 to 4 October 2021. During the visit, he met with Nepalese President Bidya Devi Bhandari,… more ►

New Special Envoy of the Czech Republic for the Indo-Pacific

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Czech Minister of Foreign Affairs Jakub Kulhanek has appointed a very experienced Czech career diplomat Ambassador Libor Secka, as Special Envoy of the Czech Republic for the Indo-Pacific. more ►

30th Anniversary of the Velvet Revolution

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Date: 21 November 2019  Venue: New Delhi

Ambassador of the Czech Republic Milan Hovorka and Ambassador of the Slovak Republic Ivan Lancaric hosted Velvet Street Event in New Delhi on November 21, 2019 to mark the 30th anniversary of the Velvet… more ►

Europe Day 2019 in India

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Date: 09 May 2019  Venue: New Delhi

All 28 member states of the European Union were celebrating the Europe Day on May 9, 2019 in New Delhi. A great evening was hosted by Ambassador of the European Union to India Tomasz Kozlowski with the… more ►

Prime Minister's Condemnation of Terror in India

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Date: 14 February 2019

Prime Minister of the Czech Republic Andrej Babis condemned the terrorist attack in the State of Jammu & Kashmir on February 14, 2019. more ►

Prime Minister's Condemnation of Terror in India

Date: 14 February 2019

Prime Minister of the Czech Republic Andrej Babis condemned the terrorist attack in the State of Jammu & Kashmir on February 14, 2019. more ►

President's Condolences on Terror in India

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Date: 14 February 2019

President of the Czech Republic Milos Zeman sent condolences to President of India Ram Nath Kovind in connection with the terrorist attack in the State of Jammu & Kashmir on February 14, 2019. more ►

SKODA AUTO to Lead INDIA 2.0 Project for 1 Bln. Euro

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Date: 04 July 2018 - 02 July 2018

SKODA AUTO CEO Bernhard Maier and Managing Director of ŠKODA AUTO India Private Ltd Gurpratap Boparai announced details of the ‘INDIA 2.0’ project at a press conference in New Delhi on July 2,… more ►

Meeting with Representatives of Travel Agencies

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Date: 04 November 2015  Venue: Czech Embassy Delhi

In connection with the launching of the EU Visa Information System (VIS) for India on November 2nd, 2015 and with the interest to continuosly improve consular service and to communicate with the key… more ►