Foreign Policies

Jan Kubis to Become Special Coordinator for Lebanon

New York, January 10 (TASR) – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has named Slovak diplomat Jan Kubis as his Special Coordinator for Lebanon, the UN stated on January 9.

Former Slovak foreign affairs minister Kubis has headed UN missions in Iraq and Afghanistan in the past. He’ll replace Pernille Dahler Kardel of Denmark, who has been acting coordinator since November 2017.

Kubis’s appointment comes at a time when the UN has deployed its peacekeeping forces on the border between the two countries because tension is growing. Back in December the Israeli army launched an operation aimed at destroying Hezbollah tunnels that lead into Israel.

Kubis led the mission in Afghanistan from 2011 to 2015 and the mission in Iraq between 2015 and December 2018. He served as foreign affairs minister during Robert Fico’s first government from July 2006 to January 2009.

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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