Pellegrini to Pay Visit to Czech Republic on Tuesday, Will Meet Pavel and Babis

Bratislava/Prague, 3 November (TASR) - Slovak President Peter Pellegrini will leave for a working visit to Prague on Tuesday, where he's scheduled to meet his Czech counterpart Petr Pavel and ANO party leader Andrej Babis, the President's Office's communications department informed TASR on Monday. "Strengthening regional, cross-border, academic and scientific cooperation between Slovakia and the Czech Republic, as well as the opportunities for improving cooperation within the Visegrad Four [V4: Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland] and the Slavkov format [S3: Austria, the Czech Republic and Slovakia] will be high on the agenda of his meeting with the Czech head of state. The discussion with Andrej Babis will focus on how the process of forming a new Czech government is going and on future cooperation between our two countries, including how to strengthen this," said the office. In addition, Pellegrini will commemorate the 107th anniversary of the founding of the first Czechoslovak Republic, and he'll attend a concert by the Kosice State Philharmonic Orchestra in the Municipal House in Prague. "The Three Kings Declaration was signed in the Municipal House on 6 January, 1918, and the first Czechoslovak Republic was proclaimed there on 28 October, 1918. The Slovak president will also give a speech at the event," announced the President's Office. ko/df