A delegation of the Slovak parliament will go to Moscow. It will be headed by Andrej Danko, leader of the Slovak National Party (SNS) that forms the government coalition. Danko, who is also vice-president of the Slovak parliament, said on Sunday that the visit was intended to settle relations with Russia. At the end of December last year, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico met with Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin.
A six-person Slovak delegation is to go to Moscow in January, and its members are to include only MPs from two of the three parties in the government coalition: Direction (Smer), led by Prime Minister Fico, and Andrej Danka's SNS. Slovaks are to talk, among others: with representatives of the leadership of the Russian State Duma and the government.
Danko emphasized the need to talk to the Minister of Industry, among others. on nuclear fuel supplies. The head of SNS noted that the trip was intended to renew communication and collect information needed to “open the eyes” of Slovaks to how the Russian Federationespecially in the field of economic cooperation with the West. According to him, information about the lack of cooperation between Western companies and Russia is false.
Danko also declared that he treated the trip as a continuation of the dialogue initiated by Prime Minister Fico in Moscow. The head of the Slovak government talked with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin on December 22, 2024.
The idea of peace talks in Bratislava
The vice-president of the Slovak parliament also referred to a possible peaceful Russian-Ukrainian summit in Bratislava. He called on former president Zuzana Czaputova and opposition leaders to join this idea and help make it a reality, urging the Ukrainian president to participate Volodomyr Zelensky. He expressed his belief that there was an international arrest warrant Vladimir Putin it will not be a problem to organize the summit.
Danko is one of the most pro-Russian politicians of the current government coalition. In 2024, in one of the interviews, he stated that Russia is not an aggressor, but Ukraine it only defends its interests. He also distanced himself from the policy of sanctions and did not condemn Russia's occupation of Crimea in 2014.
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