(ANSA) - PRAGUE, MAR 14 - Newly elected Czech president, Petr
Pavel, sees the V4 countries (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland,
Hungary) as a consultative forum and no longer as a tool of
foreign and security policy. In his opinion, the platform makes
sense as long as it addresses issues on which the member
countries agree. Pavel discussed this during his meeting with
Slovak Slovak President Zuzana Caputova in Bratislava, where he
is on an official visit. The president who followed Zeman had
shown more than once skepticism about the efficiency of the
so-called Visegrad group, but he is not in favor of its
dissolution. Instead, he wants "to fill this format with new
content." 'Today, it should rather be a consultative forum, with
no ambition to coordinate positions in foreign policy," Pavel
said in Bratislava. Pavel also hopes to expand the group to
three Baltic countries, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. (ANSA).
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