Foreign Policies

Caputova: Guterres Confirmed UN Help for Slovakia in Managing Refugee Influx

New York, September 23 (TASR) – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has confirmed that UN agencies will continue to help Slovakia to manage support for people fleeing Russia’s aggression, Slovak President Zuzana Caputova posted on a social network following her meeting with Guterres in New York on Friday.

The UN secretary-general told Caputova during their talks that “Slovakia has an influential and respected voice in the UN”. “This applies not only to the fight against the climate crisis, support for Ukraine and solidarity with Ukrainian refugees, but also to other important issues,” wrote the president.

According to Caputova, the general debate taking place at the moment as part of the UN General Assembly session in New York is an opportunity to strengthen partnerships and deepen cooperation.

“I concurred with UN Secretary-General Guterres that we must do our utmost to protect the rules-based international order and address the global climate crisis and lack of food,” posted Caputova on Twitter.

SPPK: If Farmers Aren't Taken Seriously, They Will Be Seen in Streets More Often

If farmers' demands are not taken seriously, they will be seen in the streets more often, Slovak Agriculture and Food Chamber chairman Emil Macho told a news conference held in front of the Parliament's building on Thursday.

PM: Slovakia to Organise Repeated Mass Testing, Two Dozen Districts Exempt

Bratislava, November 2 (TASR) – Slovakia will organise a repeated mass testing for the coronavirus, but districts with positivity rates below 0.7 percent in the testing this past weekend will be exempt from the second round, Prime Minister Igor Matovic (OLaNO) announced after a meeting of the Central Crisis Management

Fico: Slovakia to Receive €1 bn of €10-bn Package of EU Funds for Floods

Slovakia will receive €1 billion of the €10-billion package from EU cohesion funds to deal with the consequences of the recent floods, Premier Robert Fico, who attended on Thursday a meeting of premiers and the European Commission on floods in Wroclaw, Poland, told a press conference on Friday.

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