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Trump invites Czech president to visit White House

Xinhua, December 7, 2016 Adjust font size:

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump invited Czech President Milos Zeman to visit the White House during their phone call on Tuesday, the Czech president's spokesman Jiri Ovcacek said.

Ovcacek said that the visit might take place next year in April. Zeman also invited Trump to visit the Czech Republic, who accepted the invitation in principle.

Trump appreciated the fact that the president of Czech Republic "was the only European president" who supported him publicly before the November elections in the United States, it was reported.

Both leaders agreed Zeman's U.S. visit would be at the end of April in 2017, when he is to receive an award from leading Jewish organizations in the United States.

According to Ovcacek, the two presidents also spoke about their common positions in the fight against terrorism, and political and economic cooperation between the two countries.

Before the U.S. presidential election, Zeman said if he were a citizen of the United States, he would vote for Trump. After Trump's victory, Zeman expressed great joy and congratulated him at a special press conference.

Zeman has visited the United States three times during his presidency, but met no representatives of the U.S. government. So far, Vaclav Havel is the only Czech president to have had an official state visit to the White House. Endit