Slovak PM vows to block Ukraine's NATO membership while in office
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Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico announced that he, as the government leader, will veto Ukraine's membership in NATO for as long as he holds his position.
Fico said this in an interview with STVR, which Pravda.sk cited.
The Slovak Prime Minister noted that he has nothing against Ukraine's membership in the EU, although he believes that:
"This path will not be traveled for several years."
However, according to Fico, he categorically opposes Ukraine's membership in NATO.
"As long as I am the prime minister of the Slovak Republic, I will make sure that the deputies over whom I have political control as the head of the party never agree to Ukraine's membership in NATO," Fico said, reminding that the country's membership in NATO requires ratification by the parliaments of the member countries of the Alliance.
He claims that Ukraine's accession to NATO would become the basis for the Third World War.
It should be mentioned that Fico recently expressed his desire to repair relations with Russia once the full-scale war instigated by Russia in Ukraine comes to an end.
According to Fico, if the war in Ukraine "ends during the mandate of this government," i.e., by 2027, "I will do everything to restore economic and normal relations with the Russian Federation."
"The European Union needs the Russian Federation, the Russian Federation needs the European Union. We will take great care of friendly relations with Ukraine," the prime minister of Slovakia said.
In early September, during a visit to the Holocaust Museum in the city of Sered, Fico said that "Nazi troops" were fighting in Ukraine. Still, the international community allegedly did not notice this.
"We all talk about fascism and Nazism, and at the same time, we silently tolerate the fact that there are very clearly marked troops running around Ukraine, which are associated with movements that we consider dangerous and forbidden today. Since this is a geopolitical battle, no one cares," Fico says.
He also mentioned that the global community ought to stop soldiers who display Nazi symbols from participating in the fighting in Ukraine.
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As Rubryka previously reported, the prime minister of Slovakia, Robert Fico, was shot on May 15 after an away meeting of the government; he was taken to the hospital.
At the scene of the shooting, law enforcement officers detained a man who attempted to assassinate the Prime Minister of Slovakia, Robert Fico. Subsequently, he voiced his motives, that he disagreed with the government's policy.
Juraj Cintula, 71, is a writer and the founder of a literary club in Levice. He was previously employed in a private security service but left after the attack in the shopping center in 2016.
The court in Pezinok, Slovakia, has decided to place Juraj Cintula under arrest. The man could face 25 years to life in prison. Fico underwent multiple surgeries after being shot.
Slovakia's Deputy Prime Minister and Head of the Ministry of Defense, Robert Kaliňák, said that Fico will have ongoing health problems after the assassination attempt.
