The meeting focused on bilateral relations, security and defense issues, transatlantic relations, irregular migration, and the Eastern Partnership initiative.
The President of Lithuania emphasized growing bilateral relations between Lithuania and the Czech Republic as well as close cooperation in NATO, the EU and other international organizations.
Speaking about security issues, Gitanas Nausėda thanked the President of the Senate for the Czech Republic’s contribution to the security of the region and the participation of Czech troops in NATO’s forward presence, Air Policing mission and Force Integration Unit.
The President thanked the Czech Republic for its financial and material support in the fight against irregular migration and for its solidarity expressed at the European Council on the need to amend the EU’s legislation on migration, asylum and border protection.
Gitanas Nausėda also invited the Czech Republic to work together to achieve ambitious results at the upcoming Eastern Partnership summit on December 15. “The European Union must reaffirm its commitments to the Eastern Partnership policy, and our partners in the East must reaffirm their determination to implement reforms and gradually integrate into the EU’s internal market,” the President said.
