Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Evangelos Venizelos participated today in the Visegrad+3 Ministerial Meeting, which was attended by the Foreign Ministers of the Visegrad Group (V4) – Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic – and the Foreign Ministers of Greece, Bulgaria and Romania.

In statements, following the meeting, Venizelos referred to the three main topics of the agenda:

•    On the field of energy policy and security, the new element – a very attractive and critical element – is the idea to construct the southern corridor, the Aegean-Baltic corridor, through the existing infrastructure, through the different interconnectors between our countries, and also in connection with the existing or the new terminals of LNG.
•    The second point is on the management of migratory flows - a priority for the Greek presidency of the European Council.
•     The third point is on the great problem of Ukraine. There is a vital need to protect the existence, the territorial integrity and also the social, regional cohesion of the country. It is our moral and political international duty to avert the return to violence. It is our duty to prevent civil war. It is our historical and moral duty to elaborate and present – together with the United States, Russia and the competent international organizations – a consolidated, integrated process in order to avoid the disorderly default and the destruction of the financial and economic level of Ukraine.

Read below Venizelos’ full statement.