Baku / 13.02.19 / Turan: The visit of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev to the Czech Republic is scheduled for the second half of 2019. The Czech Ambassador to Azerbaijan, Milan Ekert, announced this at a press conference on Wednesday.
The presidential visit is expected to take place in October, and the administration of the head of the Czech state is preparing for it.
Referring to other visits, the ambassador noted that in the first half of the year Baku will be visited by the chairman of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic Radka Vondrachka.
According to him, the next meeting of the Czech-Azerbaijan intergovernmental commission will also be held in Prague. --71D-
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