Meeting of State Secretaries of Defence Ministries from V4 countries

A meeting of the State Secretaries of the Ministries of Defence from the V4 countries in the format of the Senior Body was organised under the Polish Chairmanship of the Visegrad Group (July 2016 – June 2017) on 24-25 November in Szczecin. The main tasks of the Senior Body, delivered through the V4 Defence Cooperation Action Plan, are to determine the direction of defence cooperation; to identify areas of common interest; and to exercise continual oversight over the performance of assigned tasks. The Senior Body meets twice a year and makes recommendations to the Ministers of Defence on further steps to be adopted with the aim of advancing the defence cooperation of the V4 countries. Representing the Slovak Republic at the meeting was State Secretary Róbert Ondrejcsák. “We discussed the cooperation on implementing the conclusions of the July NATO Warsaw Summit and of the EU Global Strategy, as well as how to make the Common Foreign and Security Policy more impactful,” he summarised. The State Secretaries took part in a briefing at the Headquarters NATO Multinational Corps Northeast (HQ MNC NE), where they familiarised themselves with the HQ's activities before meeting with professional soldiers from the V4 countries. Then they joined a discussion at the 12th Polish Armed Forces Mechanised Brigade Command.