We want the European Commission to establish contact groups for our eastern neighbours - Belarus, Moldavia and Ukraine, and for former Yugoslav countries, Dzurinda said at a news conference after the two-day summit in Piestany.
The mixed contact group would meet twice a year to discuss cooperation between those countries, the EC and the CEI.
Eleven prime ministers, including Ivo Sanader of Croatia, and six deputy prime ministers from the 17 CEI countries, met in Piestany for the regular annual summit dedicated, among other things, to the EU enlargement.
Participants in the summit discussed the current situation in the CEI countries and welcomed the progress in the process of European integration, particularly with regard to enlargement and talks on the Stabilisation and Association Agreement, reads a document adopted at the end of the summit.
Speaking to reporters, Dzurinda emphasised Croatia's integration with the EU and congratulated Serbia and Montenegro on the recent start of talks on an SAA, as well as Bosnia-Herzegovina, which is to launch talks on an SAA today.
The last EU enlargement round, during which seven of the 17 CEI member countries became EU members, emphasised the role of the CEI as an institution whose structures connect those countries and create considerable potential for intellectual exchange and transfer of knowledge in the region, reads the document adopted at the summit.
The document also notes some developments in Europe which it says causes concern and calls for a pragmatic and wise response of the governments.