Press release, 5 June 2013
Vydas Gedvilas, Speaker of the Seimas, met with Miroslava Němcová, President of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic.
The meeting was also attended by the delegation under the leadership of the President of the Chamber of Deputies, members of the Seimas Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee European Affairs and the Group for Inter-Parliamentary Relations with the Czech Republic.
On behalf of the Seimas, Mr Gedvilas extended his sympathy to Ms Němcová over the heavy floods in the Czech Republic, which have already claimed human lives. Ms Němcová was reassured that during its Presidency of the Council of the European Union, Lithuania would make every effort in order to ensure that the Czech Republic is provided with any form of help to eliminate the consequences of the natural disaster.
The Speaker of the Seimas expressed his appreciation of the excellent bilateral relations and active inter-parliamentary relations between Lithuania and the Czech Republic. “In the previous legislative term, I chaired the Seimas Group for Inter-Parliamentary Relations with the Czech Republic. If we failed to fulfil all our plans then, I hope we will manage to do it now when I hold my current position.”
Ms Němcová agreed that Lithuania and the Czech Republic really enjoyed close ties and added that the two counties shared similar positions on many matters. “Political, economic and cultural cooperation is extremely important for us; therefore, it is necessary to further develop and strengthen it.”
The Speaker of the Seimas presented the guidelines and priority areas for the Lithuanian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, as well as the events planned at the Seimas during the Presidency. The participants of the meeting exchanged their views on the Eastern Partnership and discussed the situation and the plans of Lithuania and the Czech Republic in the area of energy security, nuclear energy and the prospect of the extraction of shale gas.
Tomas Beržinskas, Advisor to the Speaker of the Seimas,
tel: +370 5 239 6019, mob: +370 698 42 786,
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