The Meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Visegrad Group (V4) together with the Western Balkan counterparts took place under the auspices of the Hungarian Presidency of the V4 on October 31, 2013 in Gödöllő, Hungary. The meeting was also attended by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania on behalf of the current Presidency of the Council of the European Union, the State Secretary of the Austrian Foreign Ministry, the Deputy Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey and the Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs of the United States as special guests of this year, as well as the European Commissioner for Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy.