SUMMARY - Tuesday, September 21, 2021 - 9 p.m.

BRATISLAVA - If 'We Are Family' party is expelled from the governing coalition by our coalition partners, we will respect it, party chair Boris Kollar stated on Tuesday. NEW YORK - Chief of Slovak diplomacy Ivan Korcok held talks with his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday, TASR learnt from the ministry press department on the same day. TRNAVA - The presence of a bomb in the house of Finance Minister Igor Matovic (OLaNO) was reported by an anonymous person on Tuesday, Trnava police spokesperson Maria Linkesova confirmed to TASR on the same day. NEW YORK/BRATISLAVA - The saving of our planet means not only combating climate change but also upholding a rules-based international order and the rule of law, at home and abroad, Slovak President Zuzana Caputova declared in her video address to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday. NEW YORK/BRATISLAVA - In her video speech addressing the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, Slovak President Zuzana Caputova urged the international community to take more decisive and swifter measures in the fight against climate change. NEW YORK/BRATISLAVA - Vaccination egoism is a political failure and will accomplish nothing but postpone the end of the COVID-19 pandemic while giving the virus more time to mutate into new and deadlier strains, President Zuzana Caputova declared in her video speech addressing the UN General Assembly on Tuesday. BRATISLAVA - Opposition Smer-SD is ready to supply the lacking ten MP's signatures to non-parliamentary Voice-SD party, which it needs to table a no-confidence motion in the entire Government, if that would kickstart the natural cooperation between the two parties, Smer-SD chair Robert Fico declared on Tuesday. BRATISLAVA - Former police chief Tibor G. [name abbreviated due to legal reasons], along with ex-head of NAKA anti-corruption unit Robert K. and ex-NAKA member Milan M. will stay in custody, as the Supreme Court decided at its closed-door session on Tuesday that reasons for the collusion custody still persist, TASR learnt from court spokesperson Alexandra Vazanova on the same day. BRATISLAVA - Independent MP Tomas Valasek (formerly affiliated with coalition's 'For the People' party) is not open to offers from the coalition and has his hands currently busy with building an alternative to the Government, TASR learnt on Tuesday. BRATISLAVA - The Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) party's decision to enable six MPs of the For the People party to switch to its caucus has increased the Government's stability, as well as probability it will rule till the end of its regular term, SaS leader and Economy Minister Richard Sulik has said in an interview for TASR TV. BRATISLAVA - The Supreme Court turned down the appeal from Justice Minister Maria Kolikova against the decision to release Penta financial group co-owner Jaroslav Hascak from custody, in the light of the fact that the charges had been annulled by Prosecutor-General Maros Zilinka in the meantime, TASR learnt from court spokesperson Alexandra Vazanova on Tuesday. mf