President Vaclav Klaus meets minister president of Saxony

Czech President Vaclav Klaus met with the minister president of Saxony Georg Milbradt on Saturday as part of a two-day visit to the German region. President Klaus - who accepted an honorary degree from Dresden's University of Technology on Friday - said it was important for the Czech Republic to establish closer ties with neighbouring regions of Germany and Austria and that the countries' leaders shouldn't just concentrate on visits to each other's capitals. Georg Milbradt for his part stressed that he held similar opinions to the Czech president on issues such as European integration, an attitude that is in contrast with those of his Bavarian counterpart Edmund Stoiber.