(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).