Prague- On 12 October, the Secretary General of the Foreign Ministry Michele Valensise was in Prague, at the invitation of his Czech counterparts, to attend a series of institutional meetings, also in view of the participation of the Italian foreign minister Paolo Gentiloni in the next summit of the Visegrad Group, scheduled for mid-November in the Czech capital. Ambassador Valensise held talks with the Deputy Minister for Political Affairs Jakub Kulhanek and the Deputy Minister for European Affairs Ivo Sramek, with whom he discusses issues of bilateral and international interest such as the situation in Libya, Syria and Iraq, and the latest European developments concerning immigration and refugee flows from North Africa and the Middle East. Regarding the Visegrad Group, which brings together the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary, joint projects were defined aimed at fostering the greater inclusiveness of the Balkans in the European Union. (9Colonne)
