In Warsaw, the President will discuss the development of the Central European region and highlight other topical security issues (8)

On May 27, President Dalia Grybauskaitė is leaving for a working visit to Warsaw where she will attend the 17th Meeting of Presidents of Central European States.

More than twenty heads of state will be present at the Central European Summit in Warsaw to discuss the democratic transformation and changes in the political system that took place in the region over the past two decades. Among the other issues on the agenda is European integration experience and possible ways of sharing it with countries seeking membership in the EU and NATO. The summit will also focus on the challenges in the European neighborhood.

A joint working dinner of Central European heads of state and US President Barack Obama will be held in the evening. At the dinner, President Grybauskaitė will speak about the implementation of the decisions adopted at NATO's Lisbon Summit last year as well as about Baltic region security and transatlantic cooperation issues. 

"During meetings with the Presidents of Central European States and the President of the United States, we will discuss the strengthening of transatlantic cooperation. In Warsaw, I will raise issues of urgent importance to Lithuania and other NATO's border states. We seek that NATO's missile defense system, agreed upon last year in Lisbon, should cover all members of the Alliance," President Grybauskaitė said.

According to the President, Lithuania which holds the chairmanships of the OSCE and the Community of Democracies has the role and the responsibility to highlight the most important international agenda issues, conducive to spreading democratic values and building a secure and reliable global democratic community as well as to contribute in an active way to their resolution. 

A trilateral meeting of the Presidents of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia is scheduled in Warsaw. 

The Meeting of Presidents of Central European States is held at the initiative of Polish President Bronisław Komorowski.