Visegrad Group: relations with EU can be built upon foundation of democracy

March 4, 2011 - 12:28 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - The Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Visegrad Group Mikulas Dzurinda (Slovakia), Karel Schwarzenberg (Czech Republic), Janos Martonyi (Hungary) and State Secretary of the Polish MFA Mikolai Dowgielewicz met with the German Minister of Foreign Affairs Guido Westerwelle to discuss the Eastern Partnership.

The Ministers from the V4 reviewed the implementation of the Eastern Partnership form the last summit in Budapest last year. They also commended the participation by Germany at the ministerial summit and its significant support to the Eastern Partnership.

They then discussed the politics of the Eastern Partnership with the representatives of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, the Republic of Moldova, and Ukraine, as well as the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton and the EU Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighborhood Stefan Fule.

The V4 Ministers expressed readiness to share with their Eastern partners know how acquired by their countries in the process of reforms and democratic transformation.

They stressed again that strong long-term relations between the partners and the EU can only be built upon the foundation of full respect to human rights, democratic standards and legal state in the countries of the Eastern Partnership.

They reaffirmed the significance of the Eastern Partnership as value added to multilateral cooperation, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic said on its official website.

In conclusion of the summit they adopted a Declaration of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Visegrad Group and Germany on the Eastern Partnership and approved the Position of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Visegrad Group and Germany on the Murder of the Pakistani Minister for Minorities Shahbaz Bhatti.

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