Foreign Policies

Danko: Czech Republic Will Support Lajcak's UN Bid

Prague, June 6 (TASR-correspondent) – The Czech Republic will support Slovak Foreign and European Minister Miroslav Lajcak’s bid for UN secretary-general, TASR was told by Parliamentary Chairman Andrej Danko following talks with Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka, Foreign Minister Lubomir Zaoralek and Senate chairman Milan Stech in Prague on Monday.

After the official approval of Lajcak’s bid by the Slovak Cabinet last month, Danko – stating that Slovakia should be proud of Lajcak – said that he’ll seek support for him abroad. Last week, Danko promoted Lajcak at a meeting with his Norwegian counterpart Olemic Thommessen. The Norwegian official then said that he finds Lajcak to be a good candidate, but he didn’t say whether Lajcak would get his country’s support.

In Prague, Danko also broached Slovakia’s Presidency of the EU Council as of July 1, cooperation within Visegrad Four and current crises in the EU – mainly concerning migration and the British referendum on leaving the Union. When it came to migration, Danko and the Czech politicians agreed on rejecting the mandatory quotas on distribution of migrants among individual EU countries and also possible sanctions for refusing migrants.

As part of the trip, Danko’s delegation also laid wreaths to a sculpture of Slovak statesman Milan Rastislav Stefanik (died 1919) and a national memorial to victims of the regime under Nazi Reich-Protector Reinhard Heydrich.

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

President Supports Civic Collection to Purchase Ammunition for Ukraine

Bratislava, April 19 (TASR) - I support the 'Ammunition for Ukraine' civic collection, President Zuzana Caputova posted on a social network on Friday, adding that she's also proud that many in Slovakia care about the fate of neighbouring Ukraine. "I support this initiative because it's the right thing to do.

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