Foreign Minister Frendo joined the other Foreign Ministers in Viana do Castelo in Portugal last Friday and Saturday for the Portuguese presidency’s ‘Gymnich’ Informal Meeting of European Union Foreign Ministers. The meeting was attended by the Foreign Ministers of the 27 member states and discussed issues such as EU Summits with special reference to the forthcoming EU-Russia summit, Kosovo and the Middle East. The Foreign Ministers of the candidate countries Croatia, Turkey and FYROM joined the other Foreign Ministers of the member states for the working lunch discussion on the Middle East.