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F India Prague ***** Annexure-II Embassy of India Prague ***** High-Level Visit Exchanges between India and Czech Republic From the Indian side: ​ 1996 - Visit of President Shankar Dayal Sharma in October 1996; ​ ​ - Shri G.M.C. Balayogi visited with a 14-member delegation 2002 - Visit of Shri Omar Abdullah, Minister of State for External Affairs Affairs; - Shri Balasaheb Vikhe Patil, Minister of Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises in September 2002; 2003 - Shri Anant Geete, Minister of Power in June 2003; - Shri Digvijay Singh, Minister of State for External Affairs in Sept 2003 - - Shri George Fernandes, Defence Minister in October 2003; 2008 - Shri Kamal Nath, Minister of Commerce & Industry and Minister of State for External Affairs Shri Anand Sharma in September 2008. 2009 - Minister for External Affairs Shri S.M. Krishna in June 2009. 2010 - Vice President Shri M. Hamid Ansari, in June 2010 ​ - Air Chief Marshal P.V. Naik, Chairman, Chiefs of Staffs Committee in November 2010 2011 - Shri Shriprakash Jaiswal, Minister of Coal in June 2011 2012 - Commerce, Industry & Textiles Minister Shri Anand Sharma led a delegation from 9-12 September 2012 to the Brno International Trade Fair at which India was the partner country and the 9th session of the Bilateral Joint Commission Meeting was held alongside; - Smt. Preneet Kaur, MOS (External Affairs) paid an official visit from 31 October-3 November 2012. 2016 - Army Chief General Dalbir Singh in September 2016. - Minister of Railways, Shri Suresh Prabhu in October 2016 2017 - Minister of State for Commerce & Industry, Shri C R Chaudhary in October 2017 for the Brno International Engineering Fair where India ​ was the partner country. 2018 - Rashtrapatiji Shri Ram Nath Kovind paid a state visit from 6-9 Sep. ​ - Shri C R Chaudhary, MoS (C&I) and Consumer Affairs, Food and PD th from 22-23 October for the 11 ​ JCEC. ​ ​ ​ 2019 - Secretary, MSME in September for collaboration in MSME sector Secretary, DHI from 7-11 Oct led Indian participation with around 60 Engg companies at the MSV Int’l Engg Fair in Brno 2021 - Secretary(West), MEA from 20-23 January led Indian delegation for Foreign Office Cunsultaions From the Czech side: 1993 - Minister for Industry & Trade Mr. Vladimir Dlouhy in March 1993 ​ - Foreign Minister Josef Zieleniec in June 1993 1994 - President Vaclav Havel visited India in February 1994 (He received two prestigious Indian awards (i) Indira Gandhi Peace Prize (during his State Visit in February 1994) and (ii) Mahatma Gandhi Peace Prize in January 2004); 1997 - Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs Cyril Svoboda in April 1997; - Minister of Industry & Trade Dr. Karel Kuehnl in October 1997; ​ 2001 - Prime Minister Milos Zeman in March 2001; ​ - Minister of Industry and Trade Mr. Miroslav Gregr in March 2001; ​ Minister of Finance Mr. Pavel Mertlik in March 2001; - Minister of Agriculture Mr. Jan Fencl in March 2001; - Minister of Defence Mr. Vladimir Vetchy in February 2001 2002 - Minister of Industry and Trade Mr. Jiri Rusnok in August 2002 and February 2003; 2003 - Dr. Miroslav Somol, Deputy Minister of Industry & Trade in January 2003 and December 2004; - Minister of Defence Mr. Jaroslav Tvrdik in February 2003; 2005 - Dr. Miroslav Somol, Mr. Martin Simonovsky, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Transport in February 2005; - President Vaclav Klaus paid a State Visit to India in November 2005. ​ 2006 - Prime Minister Jiri Paroubek visited India in January 2006. ​ 2007 - Visit of Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg. 2008 - Minister of Industry and Trade Martin Riman visited India in November 2008. 2010 - Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Mr. Milan Hovorka visited India in May 2010, November 2010, January 2011 and May 2011. 2011 - President of the Senate of Czech Parliament Milan Stech in May 2011; Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Tomas Dub in June 2011; Martin ​ - Kocourek, Minister of Trade and Industry in October 2011; - ​ 2013 - Minister of Industry and Trade Mr. Martin Kuba in March 2013; ​ - Foreign Minister Jon Kohout in November 2013. 2014 - Deputy Foreign Minister Mr. Tomas Dub in February 2014. 2015 - In January 2015, Minister for Industry & Trade Mr. Jan Mladek led a ​ th delegation to India for the 10 Session of Joint Commission on ​ Economic Cooperation; - Defence Minister Mr. Martin Stropnicky visited New Delhi and Bengaluru in February 2015; - A delegation of Members of Committee on Economic Affairs of the ​ Czech Parliament led by Vice Chairman of the Chamber of Deputies - (Lower house), Dr. Vojtech Filip visited in March 2015; A delegation comprising members of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Security of the Senate of Czech Parliament visited India from 26-30 April 2015. 2016 - Deputy Minister of Trade Jiri Koliba in March 2016. ​ - Minister for Defence Tomas Kuchta visited India to participate in the Defexpo India 2016, held in Goa from 28-31 March 2016. - Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivo Sramek in June 2016. - Minister of Foreign Affairs Lubomir Zaoralek visited in December 2016. 2017 - A delegation led by Mr. Radek Vondracek, Deputy Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies (Lower house) visited India from 29th May to 3rd June, 2017; - Czech Chief of Defence Forces General Josef Becvar in October, 2017. 2018 - A 35 member delegation led by Mr Tomas Huner, Minister of Industry & Trade visited India. - An MSME delegation led by Mr Richard Hlvaty, Senior Director General, M/o Trade & Industry visited from Nov 25 – Dec 1 2018, to launch the Czech Industrial Clusters in Bengaluru. 2019 - PM Andrej Babis paid an official visit to India for the Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit, where CR was partner country, from 18-20 January; - Defence Minister Lubomir Metnar led Czech defence industry to Aero India, 2019; - An Energy Mission from the Czech Republic led by Mr Richard Hlavaty, Director of Foreign Economic Policies, Ministry of Industry and Trade. 2020 - FM Tomas Petricek, paid a visit from 13-16 Jan, for the Raisina Dialogue and held bilateral meetings. Deputy Minister MoD visited from 3-6 Feb, for the India-Czech JDC meeting and Czech participation at Defexpo, Lucknow. .
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