Envoys mark Visegrad Group’s 30th anniversary
Islamabad
February 16, 2021
Islamabad:Diplomats from Central Europe gathered here on Monday to highlight the 30th anniversary of the Visegrad Group, an informal body of political and economic cooperation in the region.
Addressing a joint news conference, Polish Ambassador Piotr Opalinski, Hungarian Ambassador Bela Fazekas, and Deputy Head of Mission of Czech Embassy Antonin Hradelik said in February 1991, the presidents of Poland and the Czech Republic, and the prime minister of Hungary signed the Declaration on Cooperation to strive for European integration in the castle of Visegrad, Hungary.
According to them, the declaration provided a political framework for extensive cooperation between Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary, and brought closer the societies of the three, and later four, countries.