On its Twitter account, the Foreign Ministry reiterated the will to continue “strengthening the ties of friendship and cooperation that unite the two countries.”

Today, the Czech Republic is commemorating the 104th anniversary of the founding of Czechoslovakia as an independent State, after the fall of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, as a result of the events during World War I.

The Czechoslovak state was divided in 1933 into the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

The celebrations for the national holiday are traditionally associated to a military parade, although it does not take place every year, and the awarding of decorations and medals of merit to prominent personalities from political and social life.

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