Bertalan Havasi, the Prime Minister’s Press Chief, has told the government news portal kormany.hu that in the Parliament Building in Budapest on Monday afternoon Prime Minister Viktor Orbán received the foreign ministers of the Visegrád Group (V4) for their first meeting since Hungary assumed the rotating presidency of the V4 on 1 July.

The V4 foreign office chiefs and delegations from Austria, Croatia and Slovenia were meeting at the invitation of Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó.

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The main topic of discussion at the meeting with the Prime Minister was the EU integration of the Western Balkans, which the participants said was a top priority. The acceleration of the Western Balkan integration process could prevent major security challenges, it was stated at the meeting, but this will mean doing abandoning the policy of stalling tactics, which Brussels and certain Member States are currently pursuing.

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Preventing the reopening of the Western Balkan migration route also received major emphasis at the meeting, Mr. Havasi said.

(kormany.hu)