Nečas congratulates Radičova

The incoming Czech prime minister Petr Nečas has congratulated his Slovak counterpart Iveta Radičová on her appointment to office on Thursday. Mr. Nečas said he would strive to further deepen relations between the two neighbour states and expressed gratification that he would be working with a centre-right administration in Slovakia. The Czech Republic and Slovakia already have very close links after 73 years of coexisting in one state. They went their separate ways in 1993, in what was termed the Velvet Divorce. The two countries now had general elections almost simultaneously with strikingly similar results – centre right coalitions.