Joint Trip of Austrian and Czech Foreign Ministers to Ukraine

PeopleDiplomats ♦ Published: July 21, 2022; 19:20 ♦ (Vindobona)

Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg traveled to Kyiv with Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský. In addition to talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal and Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, the program included visits to the Hostomel and Irpin war sites, which testify to the sheer brutality of Russia's Invasion of Ukraine.

Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg traveled to Kyiv with Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský. / Picture: © Wikimedia Commons, Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0

Originally, the trip was planned in the so-called Slavkov format (Austria, Slovakia, Czech Republic), but Slovak Foreign Minister Ivan Korčok had to cancel at short notice due to COVID.

The three-country group of Austria, Slovakia and the Czech Republic was founded at the end of January 2015 in Slavkov (Austerlitz in German). This format aims to improve cooperation between the…