Foreign Relations of The Czech Republic - Asia

Asia

Country Formal relations began Notes
Armenia See Foreign relations of Armenia
Azerbaijan See Foreign relations of Azerbaijan
Georgia 01993-01-011 January 1993
  • The Czech Republic has an embassy in Tbilissi.
  • Georgia has an embassy in Prague.
  • Georgian Ministry of Foreign relations about the relation with the Czech Republic
India
  • The Czech Republic has an embassy in New Delhi.
  • Consulate of Czech Republic in India at Chennai, Mumbai and Kolkata.
  • India has an embassy in Prague.
Iran 01929-04-3030 April 1929
  • The Czech Republic has an embassy in Tehran.
  • Iran has an embassy in Prague.
Iraq 1993
  • The Czech Republic has an embassy in Baghdad.
  • Iraq has an embassy in Prague.
  • The Czech Republic was part of the Multinational force in Iraq between 2003 and 4 December 2008.
Israel 01948-07-033 July 1948 See Czech Republic–Israel relations

The government of Czechoslovakia recognised independence of Israel 5 days after its declaration on 19 May 1948. Diplomatic relations between both countries were established on 3 July 1948. Czechoslovakia supported with military aircraft and weapons newly created Israeli state for several months, however then-new communist government ceased this support and in few years even the diplomatic relations were broken. Communist regime did spread anti-Israeli propaganda, like all then socialist countries. After the Velvet revolution, the relations were renewed. The Czech Republic has an embassy in Tel Aviv and 4 honorary consulates (in Eilat, Haifa, Jerusalem and Ramat Gan). Israel has an embassy in Prague.

In December 2008 the Czech Air Force wanted to train in desert conditions for the upcoming mission in Afghanistan. No country agreed to help, except Israel. Israel saw it as an opportunity to thank the Czechs for training Israeli pilots when the country was first established.

There are 3,000 Jews living in the Czech Republic (see also History of the Jews in the Czech Republic).

Japan 1919
  • Japan's first Minister Plenipotentiary to Czechoslovakia was Harukazu Nagaoka
  • Relations between Czechoslovakia and Japan were broken off in 1939, and not re-established until 1957
  • The Czech Republic has an embassy in Tokyo and an honorary consulate in Kobe.
  • Japan has an embassy in Prague.
Kazakhstan
  • The Czech Republic has an embassy in Astana and a branch office of the embassy in Almaty.
  • Kazakhstan has an embassy in Prague and an honorary consulate in Jaroměř.
Mongolia 1992 See Czech Republic – Mongolia relations
  • After the 1992 dissolution of Czechoslovakia, Mongolia reaffirmed its relations with the newly formed Czech Republic in 1993.
  • The Embassy of the Czech Republic in Ulaanbaatar was formally reopened in 1999.
Philippines
  • The current diplomatic relationship of the Czech Republic and the Philippines has its roots to the friendship of Filipino national hero Jose Rizal and Ferdinand Blumentritt even neither countries existed yet back in the 19th century. Rizal visited Blumentritt in the city of Litomerice, Bohemia (present day Czech Republic) in 1887. According to Filipino Foreign secretary Albert del Rosario, the friendship between the two men served as the foundation of the current bilateral ties between the two countries.
  • Czech Republic has an embassy in Manila.
  • Philippines has an embassy in Prague.
Pakistan 01950-09-2727 September 1950

See Pakistan-Czech Republic relations

  • The Czech Republic has an embassy in Islamabad and two honorary consulates in Lahore and Karachi.
  • Pakistan has an embassy in Prague.
  • On 20 September 2008 the Czech Republic's ambassador to Pakistan, Ivo Žďárek, was killed in a deadly blast at the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad.
South Korea 01990-03-01March 1990
  • The Republic of Korea {South Korea} has an embassy in Prague since 1990.
  • The Czech Republic has an embassy in Seoul since 1991.

There is also Czech Info Center in Seoul.

  • According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of the Republic of Korea, there ae 1,100 Koreans living in the Czech Republic.

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