The initiative, a strategic partnership of 12 Central and Eastern European nations between the Adriatic, Baltic, and Black Seas, comprises Poland, Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia.
Krzysztof Szczerski, a senior aide to the Polish president, has welcomed the US resolution as important support for the Three Seas Initiative, shortly before a summit of countries involved in the project in the Estonian capital of Tallinn on October 19 and 20.
Szczerski stressed that the resolution was submitted jointly by Marcy Kaptur of the Democratic Party and Adam Kinzinger of the Republican Party and is of bipartisan character.
In the resolution, the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the US House of Representatives “supports the Three Seas Initiative in its efforts to increase energy resilience and infrastructure connectivity across Central and Eastern Europe and […] encourages Three Seas Initiative nations to take actions on joint financing of projects to strengthen energy infrastructure projects.”
Szczerski said that the resolution “reaffirms the authority of the [US] President to provide United States financing to the Three Seas Initiative.”
The resolution is to be voted on by the full House of Representatives.
(mk/pk)