Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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114. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he had a bilateral meeting with his Croatian counterpart at the most recent EU Foreign Affairs Council Meeting. [28076/24]

Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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I attended the most recent meeting of the EU Foreign Affairs Council in Luxembourg on Monday 24 June. Discussions at the Council focused on Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, the situation in the Middle East, the Western Balkans, Georgia and the Great Lakes Region. The Foreign Ministers of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia joined the FAC for the discussion item on the Western Balkans, which focused on deepening cooperation and engagement between the EU and the region, and in particular alignment with EU Common Foreign and Security Policy.

Although, on this occasion, I did not have a bilateral meeting with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Croatia, Mr. Gordan Grlic-Radman, Ireland and Croatia continue to have very strong bilateral relations, as exemplified during the visit by the Prime Minister of the Republic of Croatia, Mr. Andrej Plenkovic, to Dublin last year.