SUMMARY-Friday-February 21, 2020 - 10 p.m.

KECHNEC - Relations between Slovakia and Hungary have never been better than they are now, as is proved by a plethora of mutual projects, Slovak Economy Minister Peter Ziga and Hungarian Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Peter Szijjarto concurred on Friday, signing a memorandum on cooperation in gas transmission. BRATISLAVA - Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini (Smer-SD) on Friday thanked the police and prosecutors for the fact that "the murderers and possible orderers [of the murder of Jan Kuciak and Martina Kusnirova] are being tried," reacting to the second anniversary of the murder. BRATISLAVA - The presidency of the Democratic Party (DS) on Friday decided that the defectors from the parliamentary opposition party Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) around Lubomir Galko can stay on the party"s slate. BRATISLAVA - Several thousand people on Friday evening gathered on Freedom Square in Bratislava in order to attend an event commemorating murdered journalist Jan Kuciak and his bride-to-be Martina Kusnirova, who were both killed on Feburary 21, 2018. BRATISLAVA - Several opposition lawmakers on Friday evening commemorated the second anniversary of the murder of Jan Kuciak and Martina Kusnirova on SNP Square in Bratislava. BRATISLAVA - Slovak Foreign Affairs Minister Miroslav Lajcak (a Smer-SD nominee) is set to visit Armenia on Sunday and Monday in order to open the Slovak Representative Office in Yerevan, the Foreign Affairs Ministry told TASR on Friday. zel