Belgrade, April 3 (CTK) – Czech President Milos Zeman will visit Romania, Moldova and France and attend the celebrations of the 1989 events in Warsaw and of the 70th anniversary of the Normandy landing in 2014, his office’s foreign section head Hynek Kmonicek has told CTK in Serbia.
Zeman, who was inaugurated in March 2013, is also to go to Jordan and the United Arab Emirates in December and he may visit China and Russia in 2014, but the exact dates have not been set yet, Kmonicek noted.
During his first year in office, Zeman, 69, travelled mainly to the neighbouring countries. He traditionally paid his first official visit in his capacity as president to Slovakia and then to Austria, Poland and Germany.
This year he will go to more remote countries.
His trip to Romania and Moldova is scheduled for May.
Then he will fly to Warsaw to join the celebrations of the 25th anniversary of the fall of the communist regime in the former Soviet bloc.
Zeman, along with the most significant world politicians, including U.S. President Barack Obama and British Queen Elizabeth II, will take part in a ceremony commemorating the landing operation of the Allied forces in Normandy, France, during World War II, on June 6, 1944.
Zeman will pay an official visit to Paris in the autumn.
In September, he plans to attend a NATO summit in Wales.
Moreover, Zeman should fly to Kazakhstan and Tajikistan this year.
Zeman is now on an official visit to Serbia from where he will fly to Slovenia Thursday.
Earlier this year, he went to Strasbourg, France, where he delivered a speech to the European Parliament.
Zeman was originally to make a trip to Romania last autumn but he had to postpone it over a knee injury.