WARSAW, July 15 (Xinhua) -- Slovak President Zuzana Caputova met Polish President Andrzej Duda and Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki during a visit to Poland on Monday, discussing regional cooperation and the EU future of both countries.

Caputova had visited Prague and Budapest before arriving in Warsaw, in a priority visit to the Visegrad region after taking office in June.

Caputova's visit to the region "was proof of how much importance the President places, immediately after taking office, on what is also important to us, namely regional cooperation and cooperation as part of the European Union," Duda said in a joint press conference with the Slovak president.

Caputova referred to Poland as the country which provided an inspiration to the whole region by being the first to introduce partly free elections and free speech.

"A unified voice of our region could be more powerful than the individual voices of the countries. But at the same time I must say that there are differences among us," the Slovak president said in Warsaw.

She said Slovakia "sees its place in the EU, is fully integrated in the block", which was a "different position than that of the other countries in the Visegrad group".

Among other topics discussed with Duda and Morawiecki were economic cooperation between the two countries, infrastructure development and climate change. Caputova is a former environmental activist.

"The President was specialising for years in this area," said Andrzej Duda during a press conference, before pointing out that for Poland climate change was very important but equally key was "just transition", which refers to transforming the energy sector while supporting social groups dependent on fossil fuels.

In June, Poland blocked an EU attempt to set a 2050 carbon neutrality goal for the whole block, arguing that the country needed more financial support from the EU to adopt this objective. From the four Visegrad countries, Slovakia was the only one to back the 2050 target. Enditem.

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