{"id":224473,"date":"2025-06-29T16:59:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T16:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/224473\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T16:59:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T16:59:12","slug":"perhaps-russia-should-be-forgiven-for-everything-that-has-happened-says-slovak-foreign-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/224473\/","title":{"rendered":"Perhaps Russia should be forgiven for everything that has happened, says Slovak foreign minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Juraj Blan\u00e1r. Photo: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Slovak Foreign Minister Juraj Blan\u00e1r believes that resolving Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine requires re-establishing communication with Moscow.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> Slovak news agency <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tasr.sk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TASR<\/a>, with reference to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stvr.sk\/televizia\/archiv\/14036\/540013#445\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">STVR<\/a>, a Slovak public broadcaster, as reported by European Pravda<\/p>\n<p><strong>Details:<\/strong> Speaking on Slovak broadcaster STVR, Blan\u00e1r said the conflict between Ukraine and Russia cannot be solved militarily, and that such conflicts must be prevented &#8220;through diplomatic means and adherence to international law&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement:<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let us return to respect for international law and seek ways to communicate with the Russian Federation,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Slovak foreign minister also stated that the West must find a way to cooperate with Russia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And perhaps even forgive everything that has happened,&#8221; Blan\u00e1r added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Background:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>&#13;<\/p>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Slovakia\u2019s leadership remains one of the few in Europe maintaining contact with Russia since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in 2022.<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pravda.com.ua\/eng\/news\/2025\/05\/9\/7511381\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">visited Moscow<\/a> and met with Vladimir Putin twice since returning to power in 2023.<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Bratislava has also been stalling the adoption of new European Union <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pravda.com.ua\/eng\/news\/2025\/06\/10\/7516562\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sanctions against Russia<\/a>.<\/li>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Support Ukrainska Pravda on <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/pravdaua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Patreon<\/strong><\/a><strong>!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Juraj Blan\u00e1r. Photo: Getty Images Slovak Foreign Minister Juraj Blan\u00e1r believes that resolving Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[332,2558],"class_list":{"0":"post-224473","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-russia","9":"tag-slovakia"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114767722269776508","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}