Polish president to talk immigration with fellow V4 member Slovakia
PR dla Zagranicy
Alicja Baczyńska
02.10.2015 12:45
Polish president Andrzej Duda is meeting his Slovak counterpart, Andrej Kiska, on Friday, in the run up to next week's Visegrad Group summit in Hungary.
Slovakian President Andrej Kiski. Photo: www.prezident.sk
The bloc's upcoming gathering, scheduled for 8-9 October, is to be centered on drawing up a plan for joint border defence, Janos Lazar, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's chief of staff has said.
The bilateral talks, to be held in northern Slovakia this evening, pose an opportunity for the country leaders to establish personal ties, presidential minister Krzysztof Szczerski stated.
"Both heads of state are avid skiers, and come from nearby regions," the official said of Poprad-born Kiska and Duda, born in Poland's southern city of Krakow, sworn into office in August.
Their meeting comes a week after the Polish government agreed to take in 5,000 refugees from camps in Greece and Italy, in addition to 2,000 asylum-seekers agreed upon in Brussels in July. Having so far voiced fierce resistance and criticism of mandatory quotas, Warsaw consented to accept further groups of migrants thus breaking away from the remaining Visegrad Group members, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary. (aba/rk)
Source: IAR/AP