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“Today I spoke with a colleague from Ukraine, Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba. I apologized to him for the incorrect statements made by Slovak Prime Minister Igor Matovich regarding Ukraine,” said I. Korčok.
I. Korchok also stressed that a few days before the incident, the ministers had excellent communication in Kiev, writes rbc.ru.
March 3 During an interview, the head of the Slovak government joked that he had promised Moscow the “transcarpathian region of Ukraine” in exchange for the supply of the Russian vaccine against the coronavirus “Sputnik V”.
The prime minister later added that there was a preconceived notion that the agreements with Russia were themselves a “betrayal” of Slovakia.
Igor Matovich
“What do you think I promised them? I didn’t promise them anything, they didn’t want anything from me, ”said the Prime Minister.
Kuleba, head of Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry, said he thought Matovich’s comments were inappropriate and said such jokes damage “the friendly and very sincere relations between Ukraine and Slovakia.”
Let it change for various regions of Slovakia. It is regrettable that the Slovak Prime Minister is ruining the extremely friendly and sincere relations between Ukraine and Slovakia with his incorrect statements. https://t.co/xB48xPzX90
– Dmytro Kuleba (myDmytroKuleba) March 3, 2021
Later, the Foreign Ministry announced that Matthus Korba, the Slovak Charge d’Affaires ai in trouble in Ukraine, had been subpoenaed and Ukraine had protested against him. In addition, Kiev demanded an official apology from the Slovak prime minister.
“Regardless of motives, gender or context, such statements by the head of the Slovak government, which directly affect the territorial integrity of Ukraine, are absolutely unacceptable,” the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
In 2014, Russia annexed the Ukrainian-owned Crimean peninsula and supported the fighters of the separatist campaign for seven years in eastern Ukraine. The military action has already had more than 13 thousand. lives.
The European Union and the United States have announced sanctions on Russia for annexation, which were extended for another year on Wednesday by the Joe Biden administration. Brussels has also pledged to maintain the sanctions.
“The ‘joke’ of the Slovak Prime Minister is extremely offensive to the Ukrainian people suffering from Russian aggression and Russian occupation of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol and part of the Ukrainian Donbass region,” said the Ministry of Foreign Relations of Ukraine. saying.
Delphi Slovakia already entered a whirlwind of political crisis on Tuesday, with a collusion to buy the Russian-made Sputnik V vaccine, which has the highest death rate from COVID-19 in the world.
The agreement was reached by the country’s prime minister, despite opposition from coalition partners. Prime Minister Igor Matovičius defends the decision, arguing that it was made with the welfare of the country’s population in mind, as the number of new cases in the country is probably the highest in the entire European Union, so assistance is needed as soon as possible. . I. Matovičius says that in this case it is not where the vaccine comes from that matters, but rather that it “will save people’s lives”.
Slovakia is the second Member State of the European Union to have purchased a Russian vaccine that has not yet been approved by the European Medicines Agency. Hungary was the first to do so. Slovak Health Minister Marek Krajci, representing the Prime Minister’s “Common People” movement in a four-party coalition, gave the green light to the decision.
The ruling coalition partners were not impressed with the decision, to put it mildly.
Slovak Foreign Minister Ivan Korcok of the business-friendly Freedom and Solidarity Party says he wants to consult with the country’s leaders about purchasing the vaccine. Korcok says he has no doubt that the vaccine is Russia’s weapon in a hybrid war with the West.
“This political weapon attacks us both at home and abroad,” said the head of Slovak diplomacy. According to him, this acquisition of the vaccine casts a shadow of doubt on the development of a clearly Western policy in his country. Another coalition partner, the Popular Party, met with colleagues on Tuesday to discuss next steps.
The party’s leader and deputy prime minister, Veronika Remisova, has repeatedly said that the Sputnik V vaccine cannot be used because it has not been approved by the European Union drug control authority. “We are very concerned about the health of the country’s population, its vaccination, but vaccination can only be carried out with vaccines that have proven to be safe and effective,” said the Slovak Deputy Prime Minister.
Slovak President Zuzana Caputova says she would support the decision to use “all available and safe vaccines” to protect people, but Sputnik V is not one of them because “no responsible authority guarantees their safety.” Ms Caputova spoke on Tuesday after a meeting with Zuzana Batova, director of the country’s drug agency. The latter emphasizes that the use of an unregistered vaccine is “extremely risky.”
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has not yet registered the medicine, the efficacy and safety of which have been confirmed in a peer-reviewed journal, The Lancet, but Slovak Health Minister Marek Krajči has previously said he will sign an authorization from marketing for Sputinik. V.
Russia certified the drug in August last year, which has yet to conduct large-scale clinical trials, leading many experts to question the drug. However, the authoritative medical journal The Lancet subsequently published research showing that the vaccine is safe and 91.6 percent effective.
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