PM Drnovsek to Attend Vilnius Group Meeting in Riga

Riga, 4 July - Slovene PM Janez Drnovsek is to attend a meeting of counterparts from the Vilnius group of NATO candidate countries in Latvia on Friday and Saturday. The conference will be the last before the November NATO summit in Prague, where invitations to join the Alliance are to be extended to the candidates. The PMs in Riga are to be addressed via satellite by U.S. President George W. Bush and British PM Tony Blair.