Czech, Austrian foreign ministers meet in Prague, preside over “Neighbours” book launch

Minister of Foreign Affairs Jakub Kulhánek (Social Democrats) and his Austrian counterpart, Alexander Schallenberg, met in Prague on Thursday to discuss bilateral and EU issues and agreeing on crossborder travel before the introduction of pan-European covid passports. They also presided over a presentation of the book “Neighbours: Czech-Austrian History”, along with authors Václav Šmidrkal and Hildegard Schmoller.

Kulhánek took up the ministerial post on April 21 and met Schallenberg for the first time. His first working trip abroad in office was to Slovakia, where he met his counterpart Ivan Korčok and Prime Minister Eduard Heger. On Friday, he is due to attend a meeting of foreign ministers of the Visegrad Four (Czechia, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary) and Japan in Warsaw, and is also preparing a bilateral meeting with his Japanese counterpart Tošimic Motegi.