Iraqi prime minister pays official visit to Prague

Prime Minister Petr Fiala on Thursday welcomed Iraqi Prime Minister Muhammad Sudani in the garden of Prague's Straka Academy. They discussed strengthening trade relations, defence-industrial cooperation and cooperation in the security field, and Mr. Fiala stated afterwards that Iraq “belongs among Czechia’s main partners in the Middle East”.  President Petr Pavel and Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies Markéta Pekarová Adamová are due to meet with Sudani later in the afternoon.

The last Iraqi prime minister's visit to the Czech Republic took place in October 2012, when Nouri Maliki met with Petr Nečas. Bohuslav Sobotka then visited Baghdad in the summer of 2017. According to the BusinessInfo.cz server, operated by the CzechTrade agency, Iraq was the fifty-fifth most important export market for Czechia in 2023. Four fifths of those exports were passenger cars. Imports from Iraq rose from almost none the year before to nearly a billion crowns, 99% of which was oil.