After negotiations with the head of the European Commission, Prime Minister Robert Fitzo said that Slovakia stopped the blockade of the 18th package of sanctions against the Russian Federation.
Bratislava will support a new package of sanctions EU Against Russia, he said in a video message on his Facebook page on Thursday, July 17.
According to the Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fitzo, negotiations with the chairman of the European Commission Ursula von der Layen on guarantees for Slovakia in the matter of the expected one affected the position of Bratislava. the EU completely refusal of gas supplies from the Russian Federation. He did not release details of the conversation:
“At this stage, to continue to block the 18th package of sanctions is already counterproductive. All possible options have been exhausted, and the preservation of our position on blocking can harm our own interests.”
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