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The Foreign Ministers of Slovenia, Austria, the Czech Republic and Slovakia have agreed in Slovenia to take a coordinated response in the future to curb the coronavirus epidemic. The countries will discuss the new provisions regularly every two weeks, Slovenian Foreign Minister Anze Logar said. Central European countries also urge the European Commission to establish a joint action mechanism as soon as possible in the event of an increase in the number of infected people. However, they do not ask for the closure of borders.
Tomás Petrícek, head of Czech diplomacy, pointed out that it was time for joint action in the European Union to address the crisis in Belarus. Slovak Foreign Minister Ivan Korcok said EU foreign ministers should send a clear signal to Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in Brussels next Monday to stop the violence and start talks with the opposition.
Hungary is also a member of the Vienna Fives, also known as the Middle Fives initiative. This was the third meeting of the foreign ministers of these countries: they were discussed in Vienna in June and in Budapest in July. Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó will attend this Tuesday the signing ceremony of the peace agreements between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain at the White House in Washington at the invitation of the President of the United States, Donald Trump, the only EU minister who attended. meeting in Slovenia.
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