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Post by tuftabis on Jul 29, 2010 12:48:20 GMT -7
Czech foreign minister to visit Warsaw, Budapest next week
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27 July 2010
Prague, July 26 (CTK) - Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg will pay visits to Poland and Hungary next week that will end the new minister's tour of the neighbouring countries and the members of the Visegrad Group, the ministry's spokesman Jiri Benes told CTK yesterday.
The Visegrad Group is the association of four post-communist Central European countries - the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia.
On Monday, August 2, Schwarzenberg will go to Warsaw. On Thursday, August 5, he will travel to Budapest.
Schwarzenberg will meet his Polish and Hungarian partners shortly after a meeting of the Visegrad Group prime ministers who agreed to make their cooperation in relations to the European Union, in energy security and the fight against the economic crisis and unemployment more intensive.
Czech-Polish relations have not been burdened by any serious problems in the recent years. Schwarzenberg will visit Warsaw about a month after Bronislaw Komorowski (liberal Civic Platform) was elected Polish president, beating Jaroslaw Kaczynski (conservative Law and Justice).
Czech diplomacy was concerned about tense relations between Slovakia and Hungary in the past few months triggered by the step the new Hungarian government of Viktor Orban took in support of ethnic Hungarians based in other countries, including Slovakia.
A recent meeting between Orban and new Slovak Prime Minister Iveta Radicova indicated that the tension between the two countries may calm down.
Schwarzenberg who was appointed on July 13 visited the neighbouring Germany and Austria last week. He also met his Slovak counterpart Mikulas Dzurinda.
On Tuesday, he was to go to Paris but the visit was cancelled as French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner had to change his programme unexpectedly, Benes told CTK.
Kouchner did not even attend the meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels yesterday. According to unofficial information, he left for North Africa to react to the statement by a Al-Qaeda local branch on the killing of a French captive.
In the EU, the Czech Republic will concentrate on support to countries of the West Balkans that want to join the EU, and on cooperation with former Soviet republics that are included in the Eastern Partnership project.
Copyright 2009 by the Czech News Agency (ČTK). All rights reserved
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Post by Pawian on Jul 29, 2010 12:56:37 GMT -7
Good to hear that. Czech and Polish relations are very important. Maybe not so important as Polish and German, or Polish and Russian, but always.
Thanks for reporting.
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Post by Eric on Jul 29, 2010 17:50:40 GMT -7
Good to hear that. Czech and Polish relations are very important. Maybe not so important as Polish and German, or Polish and Russian, but always. Thanks for reporting. Please, let's not forget about the relations between Poland and Zimbabwe. Maybe not as important as between Poland and Germany, but there must be someone out there for whom they're important! |
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Post by tuftabis on Jul 29, 2010 23:58:19 GMT -7
Good to hear that. Czech and Polish relations are very important. Maybe not so important as Polish and German, or Polish and Russian, but always. Thanks for reporting. Please, let's not forget about the relations between Poland and Zimbabwe. Maybe not as important as between Poland and Germany, but there must be someone out there for whom they're important! Hey, I don't quite see why Polish relations with any of our direct neighbours are less important than with other.  ;D |
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Post by Pawian on Jul 30, 2010 1:06:49 GMT -7
Good to hear that. Czech and Polish relations are very important. Maybe not so important as Polish and German, or Polish and Russian, but always. Thanks for reporting. Please, let's not forget about the relations between Poland and Zimbabwe. Maybe not as important as between Poland and Germany, but there must be someone out there for whom they're important! Zimbabwe is important but Gabon is still more crucial. Do you know that last year the tensions were so high that some Polish politicians talked about the possibility of war between Poland and Gabon? You are in a joking mood but I am dead serious now. I am sure you didn`t know about it. |
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Post by Pawian on Jul 30, 2010 1:14:57 GMT -7
Please, let's not forget about the relations between Poland and Zimbabwe. Maybe not as important as between Poland and Germany, but there must be someone out there for whom they're important! Hey, I don't quite see why Polish relations with any of our direct neighbours are less important than with other. ;D Eric is a bit jealous. ;D ;D ;D ;D He would like to hear such warm words about Polish and Russian relations. OK, Eric. I can say this: Polish Russian relations are the most crucial of all. If we joined forces, we would be unconquerable. Satisfied? |
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Post by Eric on Jul 30, 2010 7:44:24 GMT -7
Polish Russian relations are the most crucial of all. If we joined forces, we would be unconquerable. I completely agree!  |
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Post by Eric on Jul 30, 2010 7:45:24 GMT -7
Do you know that last year the tensions were so high that some Polish politicians talked about the possibility of war between Poland and Gabon? Hmm... it's rather difficult to tell who would win a war. Would NATO and the EU agree to actively participate in combat on Poland's side? |
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Post by tuftabis on Jul 31, 2010 8:10:54 GMT -7
Hey, I don't quite see why Polish relations with any of our direct neighbours are less important than with other. ;D Eric is a bit jealous. ;D ;D ;D ;D He would like to hear such warm words about Polish and Russian relations. OK, Eric. I can say this: Polish Russian relations are the most crucial of all. If we joined forces, we would be unconquerable. Satisfied? Yes, you may be right ;D ;D ;D Eric? Are you jealous? Don't be, please. But I am a little worried about Belarusans and Ukrainian brothers of both of us. Would they like such joined forces of Poland and Russia? For Eric ;D ;D ;D |
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Post by Eric on Jul 31, 2010 10:26:31 GMT -7
But I am a little worried about Belarusans and Ukrainian brothers of both of us. Would they like such joined forces of Poland and Russia? Relations between Russia and Belarus have deteriorated very seriously in recent years. Since the planned economic union between the two countries, originally introduced by Belarussian president Lukashenko, never came to be, Russia has decided to stop subsidizing the Belarussian economy so heavily. This includes making Belarus pay closer to market prices for gas and oil. (Currently, Belarus pays among the lowest price in the world for these resources.) Lukashenko said he will not pay the higher price, and, if necessary, Belarus will simply take (yes, his word!) gas sent through transit pipelines meant for Europe to be used in Belarus instead. Relations between Russia and Ukraine, which were recently in the toilet, have improved greatly, and, ever since the elections, Ukraine is again seeking out Russian capital and business partnerships to help improve the Ukrainian economy, which has been in virtual freefall practically ever since the Orange Revolution so many years ago. |
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