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Bugar: If Kidnapping Confirmed, Slovakia Should Expel Vietnamese Ambassador

Bugar: If Kidnapping Confirmed, Slovakia Should Expel Vietnamese Ambassador

Bratislava, August 14 (TASR) – If it is confirmed that Vietnamese former state manager Trinh Xuan Thanh was kidnapped and that Slovakia was misused in the abduction, Slovakia should expel the Vietnamese ambassador, stated Most-Hid chair and Parliamentary vice-chair Bela Bugar on Tuesday. Bugar reiterated that if it is also confirmed

Travelling Exhibition of Alexander Dubcek Pictures Opens on Selected Trains

Travelling Exhibition of Alexander Dubcek Pictures Opens on Selected Trains

Bratislava, August 14 (TASR) – An exhibition of unique photographs from the archives of the News Agency of the Slovak Republic (TASR), featuring private moments of one of the most significant personalities of Slovakia – Alexander Dubcek – was opened on selected trains of the national rail transport operator ZSSK on Tuesday. The

Grendel: No Participation of SIS in Vietnamese Abduction

Grendel: No Participation of SIS in Vietnamese Abduction

Bratislava, August 10 (TASR) – There was no participation of the Slovak Intelligence Service (SIS) in the kidnapping of Vietnamese former state manager Trinh Xuan Thanh, said chairman of the parliamentary committee for supervising SIS Gabor Grendel (OLaNO) after a session of the committee on Friday also attended by SIS director

Csefalvayova: I Fail to Understand SNS Reaction, We Meet Gov't Manifesto

Csefalvayova: I Fail to Understand SNS Reaction, We Meet Gov't Manifesto

Bratislava, August 8 (TASR) – Parliamentary foreign affairs committee chair Katarina Csefalvayova (Most-Hid) has said that she sees no reason to tender her resignation, while conceding that the demand from the fellow coalition Slovak National Party (SNS) that she should do so caught her off guard, TASR learnt on Wednesday. “With

SNS Demands Ouster of Csefalvayova, Calls Breach of Coalition Agreement

SNS Demands Ouster of Csefalvayova, Calls Breach of Coalition Agreement

Bratislava, August 8 (TASR) – The Slovak National Party (SNS) demands an instant personnel change at the helm of the parliamentary foreign affairs committee, currently headed by Katarina Csefalvayova, who represents a fellow junior coalition party Most-Hid, as the committee’s Wednesday session was convened without prior consultation with the coalition

Gal Believes in Objective Investigation into Vietnamese National's Abduction

Gal Believes in Objective Investigation into Vietnamese National's Abduction

Bratislava, August 8 (TASR) – Following his meeting with President Andrej Kiska on Wednesday, Justice Minister Gabor Gal (Most-Hid) said he believes in an objective investigation into the circumstances surrounding the kidnapping of former Vietnamese state manager Trinh Xuan Thanh. Gal views the question of whether Interior Minister Denisa Sakova (Smer-SD)

Kalinak Takes Lie-detector Test over Case of Kidnapped Vietnamese

Kalinak Takes Lie-detector Test over Case of Kidnapped Vietnamese

Bratislava, August 7 (TASR) – Vice-chairman of the senior coalition Smer-SD party and former interior minister Robert Kalinak has undergone a lie-detector test over the case of the kidnapping of a Vietnamese citizen from Germany to his country of origin via Slovakia, TASR learnt on Tuesday. Speaking at a briefing, Kalinak