Foreign Affairs Minister Juraj Blanár will leave for a working visit to Poland on Thursday (March 13) at the invitation of his Polish counterpart Radoslaw Sikorski.
The ministers are expected to meet along with their respective delegations. They will hold talks on strengthening Slovak-Polish relations, cooperation within the Visegrad Four (Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary) and other regional groupings, as well as current issues of European security policy. Special attention will be paid to the current Polish Presidency of the Council of the European Union, neighbourly relations in connection with the war in Ukraine, and challenges in the field of energy and cross-border cooperation.
The head of Slovak diplomacy is also due to meet the chairman of the Polish Sejm's foreign Affairs Committee and Government Proxy for the Reconstruction of Ukraine, Pawel Kowal, and to visit the headquarters of the European border agency Frontex. He will discuss the protection of the EU's external borders and opportunities to expand cooperation between Slovakia and Frontex with the agency's Deputy Executive Officer Aija Kalnaja.
Blanár is scheduled to visit the Warsaw Uprising Museum, where he will commemorate the victims of totalitarian regimes. At the end of his trip, he will meet representatives of the Slovak expat community at the Slovak Embassy in Warsaw.
Source: TASR
