State Secretaries of V4 MODs meet in Senior Body format in Prague
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State Secretaries/Deputy Defence Ministers of the V4 Ministries of Defence attended a V4 Senior Body meeting in Prague today (5 November 2019). This was the first meeting of this format during the ongoing Czech V4 Presidency.
State Secretary of the SVK Ministry of Defence Róbert Ondrejcsák along with his counterparts Radomír Jahoda, István Szabó and Paweł Woźny dedicated the meeting to discussing current cooperation issues on the NATO, EU and V4 agenda. The core of the meeting was formed by the debate on the need to update the V4 strategic documents, especially the ‘Long Term Vision of the Visegrad Countries on Deepening their Defence Cooperation of 2014’, with a view to completing the process by the end of the current Czech V4 Presidency.
State Secretaries also addressed the options for defence cooperation in the extended V4+ format, especially highlighting the prospective engagement with the United Kingdom, which, irrespective of Brexit, remains a significant security and political partner and ally of the V4. Special attention was given to NATO’s current priorities and the defence cooperation of EU countries. On the former, they underscored the need for effective burden sharing within NATO and confirmed the commitment to allocate funds to meet the benchmark of spending 2% of GDP on defence. On the latter, they discussed the possibilities for optimising the activities of individual countries in PESCO projects, with a view to identifying the opportunities for strengthening mutual cooperation.
State Secretary of the SVK Ministry of Defence Róbert Ondrejcsák along with his counterparts Radomír Jahoda, István Szabó and Paweł Woźny dedicated the meeting to discussing current cooperation issues on the NATO, EU and V4 agenda. The core of the meeting was formed by the debate on the need to update the V4 strategic documents, especially the ‘Long Term Vision of the Visegrad Countries on Deepening their Defence Cooperation of 2014’, with a view to completing the process by the end of the current Czech V4 Presidency.
State Secretaries also addressed the options for defence cooperation in the extended V4+ format, especially highlighting the prospective engagement with the United Kingdom, which, irrespective of Brexit, remains a significant security and political partner and ally of the V4. Special attention was given to NATO’s current priorities and the defence cooperation of EU countries. On the former, they underscored the need for effective burden sharing within NATO and confirmed the commitment to allocate funds to meet the benchmark of spending 2% of GDP on defence. On the latter, they discussed the possibilities for optimising the activities of individual countries in PESCO projects, with a view to identifying the opportunities for strengthening mutual cooperation.
