Prime Minister Robert Government Fico responded on Friday to the statements of European diplomacy chief Kaje Kallas, who criticized his visit to Moscow On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe.
According to Prime Minister Kallas as a high -ranking official of the European Commission (EC), he has no power to criticize the Prime Minister of the sovereign country. TASR informed the press and information department of the Office of the Government of the Slovak Republic.
Kallas said Friday afternoon that Fico is standing on the wrong side of history, When he meets the head of Kremlin Putin, the order of Russian troops in February 2022 attacked neighboring Ukraine. “I really do not understand it. All those who promote freedom, independence and all European values should be today, in Europe, Ukraine, and not in Moscow,” she said.
The Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic explained that in Moscow it is to express his respect for more than 60,000 soldiers of the Red Army who fell in the liberation of the Slovak Republic. “It is not clear to me what these brave people have in common with the current international situation,” he wrote.
He bequeathed Kallas that “as a high -ranking EC official, he has absolutely no power to criticize the sovereign Prime Minister of the sovereign country who constructively approaches all the European agenda”. He also expressed his disagreement with the politics of the “new Iron Curtain”, which Kallas is working intensively.
“I am wondering how to do diplomacy and foreign policy if politicians are not to meet and conduct a normal dialogue about questions that have a different opinion,” closed the Prime Minister.
