Voice-SD to Submit Proposal to Restore Joint Gov't Sessions with Czech Republic

Bratislava, 28 October (TASR) – Legislators from the junior coalition Voice-SD party intend to submit to Parliament a resolution calling for the resumption of joint sessions between the governments of Slovakia and the Czech Republic, House Chair Richard Rasi (Voice-SD) announced at a press conference on Tuesday. Voice-SD planned to submit the relevant proposal to Parliament as early as on the same day. "We are convinced that talks between the Czech and Slovak governments have their rightful place. We are nations that are historically the closest to each other. The decision to discontinue Czech-Slovak government sessions [by the previous Czech government due to disagreements over Slovakia's foreign policy — ed.note] had neither logic nor meaning. We want to ask our government, and by means of a parliamentary resolution even entrust it with a mandate, to return to this format of intergovernmental meetings as soon as possible," said Rasi. MP Michal Bartek (Voice-SD) spoke of the need to restore a strong partnership. "We can see what is happening at the regional and European levels, and such a strong Czech-Slovak partnership within the European Union has worked many times before. We must restore it,” he remarked. He also congratulated Andrej Babis on being tasked by the Czech head of state with forming a new Czech government. "We congratulate him and firmly believe that, based on the democratic elections held in the Czech Republic, they will choose a good government. It's entirely their internal matter, in which we won't interfere, but it's an important milestone in restoring cooperation between our nations, as well as within the V4," he added. mf/df