(ANSA) - BELGRADE, OCTOBER 2 - The countries of the so-called 'Visegrad Group' (V4), Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia, are planning the establishment of a high-speed railway link between Budapest, Bratislava, Brno and Warsaw.

The decision to jointly build the line was announced after a meeting of the Transport ministers of the four countries, held on Monday. "The establishment of the Budapest-Bratislava-Brno-Warsaw high-speed railway link is the joint political will of the Visegrad Group", said Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto.

The Hungarian government said in a statement that a public procurement tender for the preparation of the feasibility study will be published this week. The project aims at creating a high-speed rail link through the "construction of a totally new dual track railway line that enables speeds of at least 250 kilometres/hour," Budapest said, adding that high-speed trains that along the future line will stop only at the Hungarian, Slovakian and Polish capitals and in Brno, in the case of the Czech Republic.

The European Investment Bank (EIB) expressed interest in the project, the Hungarian government added. (ANSA).