Kollar Wants to Raise Issue of Recognising Sputnik Vaccination at V4 Talks

Wroclaw, June 11 (TASR-correspondent) - Parliamentary Chair Boris Kollar (We Are Family) highlighted the role of the Visegrad Four (V4 - Slovakia, Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary) format at a meeting of the V4 House chairs held in Poland on Friday. During the meeting Kollar intends to raise the issue of the Sputnik V vaccine and recognition for the documents on inoculation with it. This issue needs to be resolved so that citizens of Slovakia who have been given the Russian vaccine can at least travel to neighbouring countries. "There's a need to ensure that our citizens can travel at least to Croatia and the countries of our closest neighbours with a certificate of vaccination with Sputnik V," said Kollar. In this connection Kollar said that he's glad that inoculation with Sputnik V has been launched in Slovakia. "There's nothing worse than almost causing the Government to fall over Sputnik, purchasing a huge amount of the vaccine and then not using it," stated Kollar. The Slovak parliamentary chair also said that during the first part of Friday's talks he and his V4 counterparts discussed cyber security, the importance of operating and cooperating within Euro-Atlantic structures and potential threats of another migration wave. ko/df