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Lajcak in Washington Discusses Range of Topics at White House
Friday 30 April 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Washington, April 30 (TASR) - Slovak Foreign Affairs Minister Miroslav Lajcak, who is currently visiting the United States, has wrapped up his talks in Washington with representatives of the U.S. administration and several members of Congress, TASR was told by Lajcak's spokesman Peter Stano on Friday.
In his meeting with the members of congress, Lajcak discussed Slovak-American relations and a range of foreign-policy and security issues.
As part of his programme in the U.S. capital, Lajcak gave a lecture at Johns Hopkins University entitled "Central and Eastern Europe 20 Years After the Fall of Communism". In his lecture, which was attended by around 100 people, the minister focused on transformation and integration processes that countries of the region have had to undergo, highlighting this as a key element in building today's united Europe and focusing on Slovakia's "success story" in particular.
Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg and Assistant Secretary of the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs Philip Gordon when meeting Lajcak highly praised the development of the bilateral dialogue between Slovakia and the United States, in which the two have confirmed their interest in further deepening strategic relations at all levels.
Lajcak also had a meeting with senior director for European affairs at the National Security Council Elisabeth Sherwood-Randall, a special advisor to U.S. President Barack Obama. The two discussed the scope for co-operation between Slovakia and the United States in terms of global security challenges, European security issues, bilateral Euro-American relations, and the situation in the CEE region.
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