Poland and the Czech Republic discuss common strategy on Belarus

Polish PM Donald Tusk paid a one-day visit to Prague on July 15.

According to The Warsaw Voice, the Polish PM and the Czech leadership discussed the cooperation in V4 group and Poland’s EU presidency. Tusk met with Czech Prime Minister Petr Necas and President Vaclav Klaus. The parties discussed the Eastern Partnership programme and organizing a Partnership summit in Warsaw in September.

Besides, the issues on working out a common position of Poland and the Czech Republic on Belarus, Russia and Ukraine were discussed, the Polish resource says.

The Eastern Partnership programme is an initiative of the EU for six countries of Eastern Europe and South Caucasus: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. It was founded on the Prague Summit on May 7, 2009, by 27 countries, the EU member states and six partner countries. The initiative aims at strengthening the relations between the EU and its eastern neighbours by means of deeper political cooperation and economic integration.

The Visegrad Group (the Visegrad Four orV4) is a union of Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic. It reflects the efforts of the countries of the Central European region to work together in a number of fields of common interest within the all-European integration.teh Group was formed on February 15, 1991, at a meeting of presidents of Hungary, Poland and Czechoslovakia in Visegrad (Hungary).