The visit takes place as Viet Nam and the Czech Republic celebrate their 75th anniversary of diplomatic relations (1950–2025), reflecting Viet Nam’s consistent policy of valuing and wishing to deepen its traditional friendship and strategic partnership with the Czech Republic - one of Viet Nam’s top priority partners in Central and Eastern Europe.
Viet Nam and the Czech Republic established diplomatic ties on February 2, 1950. Their longstanding and fine traditional friendship has been tirelessly nurtured by generations of leaders and citizens of both countries over the past three quarters of a century. The Czech Republic was among the first ten countries in the world to recognise and establish diplomatic relations with Viet Nam, and the first in Central and Eastern Europe to establish a strategic partnership with Viet Nam. The Vietnamese people always remember with gratitude the sincere, wholehearted, and selfless support that the Czech Republic extended to Viet Nam during its struggle for national liberation, as well as its support for national construction and development today.
In recent years, Viet Nam–Czech relations have grown positively across various fields. The two sides maintain regular delegation exchanges at all levels, especially high-level ones, while coordinating closely and supporting each other at international organisations. During Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh’s official visit to the Czech Republic in January 2025, the two countries elevated their relations to a strategic partnership, marking a breakthrough and opening new opportunities to deepen their bilateral ties.
Parliamentary cooperation between the two countries has been strengthened and developed in a substantive and effective manner. The two sides maintain delegation exchanges and bilateral contacts and coordinate closely at regional and international inter-parliamentary forums such as the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and the ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (AIPA), as well as on international and regional issues of shared interest.
Viet Nam and the Czech Republic established diplomatic relations on February 2, 1950. Their longstanding and fine traditional friendship has been tirelessly nurtured by generations of leaders and citizens of both countries over the past three quarters of a century.
Building on this strong foundation of friendship and political trust, Viet Nam–Czech cooperation has yielded many positive outcomes. The Czech Republic is one of Viet Nam’s leading trading partners in Central and Eastern Europe, while Viet Nam is the Czech Republic’s most important partner in ASEAN. The Czech Republic was the first EU member state to ratify the EU–Viet Nam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA) and the EU–Viet Nam Investment Protection Agreement (EVIPA). Bilateral trade turnover reached 1.6 billion USD in the first nine months of 2025.
In terms of investment, the Czech Republic currently has 41 FDI projects in Viet Nam, mainly in processing, manufacturing, and mining. The country’s strengths in investment cooperation include energy, locomotives, railway carriages, buses, trams, agricultural machinery, and irrigation equipment. Notably, the Czech Republic has launched a joint-venture automobile manufacturing project between Skoda Auto and the Thanh Cong Group in Quang Ninh, with a total investment of 450 million USD. The project became operational in April 2025, serving as a vivid symbol of the increasingly substantive economic linkage between the two nations. In education, the Czech Republic has helped train more than 4,000 Vietnamese experts at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels, as well as tens of thousands of highly skilled technical workers.
Alongside strong cooperation across multiple areas, the Vietnamese community in the Czech Republic also serves as a bridge fostering closer ties between the two nations. Numbering around 100,000, the Vietnamese community remains united, looks towards their homeland, integrates well into the host society, and contributes to the development of the Czech Republic and the friendly relations between the two countries.
With a solid foundation built over the past 75 years, Viet Nam’s reception of President of the Senate Milos Vystrčil for an official visit holds significant importance. It reaffirms Viet Nam’s foreign policy of independence, self-reliance, multilateralisation, diversification, and proactive, comprehensive, and effective international integration. The visit demonstrates that parliamentary cooperation is an important pillar in bilateral relations and underscores the shared determination of both countries to strengthen connectivity, promote cooperation, and elevate Viet Nam–Czech relations to new heights.
