Lubomir Zaoralek

With a lack of vaccine supply blunting the Czech vaccination drive, Zeman announced in March that he had contacted Russia and China to ask them to send vaccines. When the health and foreign ministers opposed using either Sputnik V or Sinopharm without EU approval, the president demanded their heads.

A Turkish court has arrested two Czechs over membership of the Syrian Kurdish Peoples' Protection Units (YPG), a senior Czech official said on Aug. 2.

Turkish security forces detained the 30-year-old man and 24-year-old woman -Miroslav Farkas and Marketa Vselichova—in the southeastern province of Şırnak that borders Syria and Iraq on Nov. 13, 2016.

Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic has said that Serbia was "at risk of becoming a victim of the EU's disunited policy on the ongoing migrant crisis."

Speaking at a joint news conference with his Czech counterpart Lubomir Zaoralek on Friday, Dacic said that nearly one million refugees has passed through Serbia since the outbreak of the migrant crisis.

BELGRADE - The Belgrade-Pristina dialogue must be continued and full security of the citizens and stability of the region maintained, Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic and Czech Foreign Minister Lubomir Zaoralek agreed during a meeting in Belgrade on Friday.

The Belgrade-Pristina dialogue "must be continued and full security of citizens and stability of the region maintained."

This is what Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic and Czech Foreign Minister Lubomir Zaoralek agreed during a meeting in Belgrade on Friday, Tanjug has reported, citing a statement issued by the president's press service.

Czech Foreign Minister Lubomir Zaoralek has canceled his visit to Montenegro because of a hacking attack targeting his email.

Zaoralek's two-day visit to Serbia, however, will proceed as planned. The minister's office announced today he would depart for Belgrade late on Thursday.

The Czech Republic has delivered its promised chandeliers to Turkish Parliament to replace the chandeliers in the Honorary Hall that were destroyed during the failed July 15 coup attempt. 

Turkey has obtained information about two Czech citizens who were caught illegally crossing the Turkish border into Iraq, and are suspected to have links to the Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Unit (YPG), Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said in a joint press conference with his Czech counterpart, Lubomir Zaoralek, on Dec. 13.

The Czech government has distanced itself from controversial remarks made by the country's President Milos Zeman, who suggested that thousands of economic migrants be deported from European states to uninhabited Greek islands.

Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad said April 21 that his government will continue with UN-mediated peace negotiations in Geneva until they "reach a solution", despite an opposition walk-out.
 
He was speaking in the Czech capital Prague during the first visit by a high-ranking Syrian official to an EU member since the beginning of the five-year conflict.