V4 Senior Body
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- Date: 10.04.2015
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On 8 - 9 April, the State Secretary of the SVK Ministry of Defence, Miloš Koterec met with his Visegrad Group partners in Modra. As a representative of the presiding country, he chaired the second session of defence ministries officials meeting in the format of the Senior Body (i.e. a consultative body of high representatives), aimed at addressing the defence issues of the V4 countries. The main task of the Senior Body is to identify the areas of common interest, steer the strategic direction of defence cooperation, and continuously monitor the performance of assigned tasks. For its next session, due to take place on 23 April in Tomášov near Bratislava, the V4 Senior Body has finalised proposals for documents and activities to further strengthen common defence cooperation.
The main theme of the talks was the V4 Defence Cooperation Action Plan, which had been formulated by the Slovak Republic. According to Miloš Koterec, the plan “defines the main contours of defence cooperation and will serve as a framework document for future V4 presidencies. We are convinced that it will ensure continuity of defence cooperation within the group, formed of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia, and that its fulfilment will yield new and very concrete results.”
Other current issues discussed at the meeting included V4 cooperation on joint defence planning, airspace protection, permanent defence modular capability, as well as the joint V4 EU Battle Group, which is to be on stand-by in the first half of 2016 and again operational in 2019. Also, the V4 Senior Body discussed a strategy for military training and exercises.
The main theme of the talks was the V4 Defence Cooperation Action Plan, which had been formulated by the Slovak Republic. According to Miloš Koterec, the plan “defines the main contours of defence cooperation and will serve as a framework document for future V4 presidencies. We are convinced that it will ensure continuity of defence cooperation within the group, formed of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia, and that its fulfilment will yield new and very concrete results.”
Other current issues discussed at the meeting included V4 cooperation on joint defence planning, airspace protection, permanent defence modular capability, as well as the joint V4 EU Battle Group, which is to be on stand-by in the first half of 2016 and again operational in 2019. Also, the V4 Senior Body discussed a strategy for military training and exercises.
