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Schwarzenberg is to be the first Czech foreign minister to visit Belarus, the ministry said.
Eastern
Partnership is to reinforce cooperation with six former Soviet Union
countries including Belarus. EU foreign ministers dealt with the
programme at the Hluboka chateau in south Bohemia in late March.
Schwarzenberg
said previously that EU foreign ministers also discussed the
participation of Belarus in the programme at the meeting.
It is
not yet clear whether Belarussian President Alexandr Lukashenko, whom
some have called the last European dictator, will be invited to the
Prague summit where the programme is to be officially launched on May 7.
Apart from Belarus, Eastern Partnership concerns Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine.
Brussels
has repeatedly criticised Belarus for the violation of human rights.
However, the situation recently somewhat improved in the country. As a
result, the EU agreed to extend the suspension of travelling sanctions
on the leaders of Lukashenko's regime.
Czech diplomacy has been supporting the Belarussian democratic opposition in the long term.
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