Prime Minister Robert Fico (Smer-SD) denies that his meeting with the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, was non-transparent. They mainly had to deal with it gas supplies. The Prime Minister informed about this at Friday’s special meeting of the Committee of the National Council (NR) of the Slovak Republic for European Affairs, which was initiated by the opposition.
“The second topic was peace initiatives. I asked the president for a truce, that it is possible to talk about it at least during the holidays,” he said. They also talked about the possibility of organizing a peace summit in Slovakia.
Prime Minister at the same time he rejected claims that his trip to Moscow was supposed to be non-transparent. “She was transparent, open, and everyone knew about her who should know about her,” he said.
According to him, he also informed the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen about the meeting and he also talked about it on the phone with the President of the European Council, António Costa. At the same time, he declared that the foreign policy orientation of Slovakia is not changing.
Fico visited Moscow last December and met with the President of the Russian Federation Putin. The opposition criticized it.
