Czech president-elect elect Petr Pavel to visit Slovakia next Monday

Czech president-elect Petr Pavel will go to Slovakia for a two-day official visit next Monday, just days after his inauguration. The date of the visit was announced on Monday by the Slovak presidential office.

The visit will take place at the invitation of his Slovak counterpart Zuzana Čaputová. The two heads of state will pay tribute to the founders of Czechoslovakia, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk and Milan Rastislav Štefánik, and take part in a joint discussion at the Slovak National Theatre.

Pavel will assume the office on Thursday and has previously announced that he would make his first foreign trip as head of state to Slovakia, which has traditionally been the first destination to visit for newly incumbent Czech prime ministers and presidents.