DUSHANBE, November 25, 2014, Asia-Plus -- The President of the Czech Republic Milos Zeman is arriving in Dushanbe today evening for an official three-day visit.  

The Tajik MFA information department reports that the President of the Czech Republic will meet with Tajik President Emomali Rahmon tomorrow.

Their talks will be followed by negotiations in an enlarged format.  The negotiations are expected to result in signing of a number of cooperation documents.

On the same day, President Zeman will hold talks with Tajik Prime Minister Qohir Rasoulzoda and participate in an official opening of a Tajik-Czech business forum.

On November 27, President Zeman will hold talks with Shukurjon Zuhurov, Chairman of the Majlisi Namoyandagon (Tajikistan’s lower chamber of parliament).

According to data of the Agency for Statistics under the President of Tajikistan, a two-way trade between Tajikistan and the Czech Republic in 2013 amounted to little more than 3.4 million U.S. dollars.

Milos Zeman is the third and current President of the Czech Republic, in office since 8 March 2013. Previously he served as the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic from 1998 to 2002.  As leader of the Czech Social Democratic Party during the 1990s, he transformed it into one of the country''s major parties. He was Chairman of the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of the Czech parliament, from 1996 to 1998.  In January 2013, Zeman was elected as President of the Czech Republic. He is the first directly elected President in Czech history; both of his predecessors, Vaclav Havel and Vaclav Klaus, were elected by the Parliament.