Saturday, 30 May 2015
PM Hovik Abrahamyan to leave for Czech Republic on official visit
At the invitation of Prime Minister of the Czech Republic Bohuslav Sobotka, a Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan-led delegation will be paying an official visit to the Czech Republic on June 1-3, 2015.
In Prague, Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan will meet with Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka. The face to face meeting of the two prime ministers will be followed by a meeting in the extended format, followed in turn by a document signing ceremony on bilateral cooperation and the joint press conference of the Prime Minister of Armenia and the Czech Republic. Then Hovik Abrahamyan and Bohuslav Sobotka will attend the opening of the Armenian-Czech business forum.
In the frame of his official visit, in Prague the Prime Minister will hold meetings with President of the Czech Senate Milan Štěch, President of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic Jan Hamáček, Archbishop of Prague, Cardinal Dominik Duka. Hovik Abrahamyan is also expected to meet with the representatives of the Armenian community of the Czech Republic.
The Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia will also visit Lidice Memorial in Prague to lay a wreath at the monument to those millions of children who died during World War II.
Accompanied by Czech Minister of Culture Daniel Herman, Hovik Abrahamyan will attend the opening of an exhibition entitled “Interrupted childhood: children - victims of the Armenian Genocide.”
