Czech Republic to oversee purchase of munitions for V4 group

The Visgrad Four countries will make joint purchases of munitions for small weapons, their ministers of defence agreed in Prague on Wednesday. The Czech Republic’s presidency of the group is ending but it will still oversee the project, its minister of defence, Lubomír Metnar, said at a news conference with counterparts from Slovakia and Hungary and the deputy defence minister of Poland. Mr. Metnar said the project could be completed this year. The Czech Republic is just about to hand the presidency of the V4 over to Poland.