Fischer meets Peres on Israel visit

The Czech prime minister, Jan Fischer, has held talks in Israel with the country’s president, Shimon Peres. The two men praised relations between their states and agreed there was great room for co-operation in the fields of science and the economy. Mr Fischer, who started a three-day visit to Israel on Tuesday, also laid a wreath at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, the country’s official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust. The Czech leader is also due to meet his Israeli counterpart, Binyamin Netanyahu.