- Weimar Triangle
The term "Weimar Triangle" refers to a loose grouping of
Poland ,Germany , andFrance . The group is intended to promote co-operation between these three countries. It exists mostly in the form of summit meetings between the leaders of these three conferences, the most recent of which occurred onMay 19 ,2005 in France. Previous meetings occurred inPoznań , Poland (1998),Nancy , France (1999), andHambach , Germany (2001). The Weimar Triangle also involves lower-level connections, such as the annual meeting between Foreign Ministers.The most recent leaders' summit was hosted by President
Aleksander Kwaśniewski of Poland and attended by PresidentJacques Chirac (France) and ChancellorGerhard Schröder (Germany). A joint statement praised the Weimar Triangle arrangement for "further strengthening the ties of cooperation between the three nations and states at all levels and in all areas."The Weimar Triangle was established in the German city of
Weimar in 1991, aimed at assisting Poland's emergence from Communist rule. Attending the meeting were the Foreign Ministers of each state:Roland Dumas of France,Hans-Dietrich Genscher of Germany, andKrzysztof Skubiszewski of Poland.Thursday,
May 19 2005 , the three leaders Schröder, Chirac and Kwaśniewski met again in the French town ofNancy to discuss EU topics.Foreign ministers' summits
# 23-24 April 1992 in Bergerac, France
# 11-12 November 1993 inWarsaw , Poland
# 14-15 September 1994 inBamberg , Germany
# 26 October 1995 inParis , France
# 19 December 1996 in Warsaw, Poland
# 19 November 1997 in Frankfurt/Oder, Germany
# 6 January 1999 in Paris, France
# 30 August 1999 in Weimar, Germany
# 7 June 2000 inKraków , Polandummits of heads of states
# 21 September 1993 in
Gdańsk , Poland
# 21 February 1998 inPoznań , Poland
# 7 May 1999 inNancy , France
# 27 February 2001 inHambach , Germany.
# 9 May 2003 inWrocław , Poland. Held a few days before the referendum on the entry of Poland in the European Union.
# 19 May 2005 in Nancy, France
# 3 July 2006 in Weimar, Germany. Postponed due to alleged indisposition of the Polish presidentLech Kaczyński .ummits of National Defence Ministers
# 25 July 2006 in
Wieliczka , Poland
# 18 December 2007 inBerlin , Germanyee also
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