It is necessary that the dialogue and peace come back to diplomacy “Mutual support, communication, the creation and strengthening of partnerships have never played such an important role as they do now, during this time of significant geopolitical changes and security threats. Therefore, multilateralism, which is the global cooperation of countries, is one of the core pillars and it is necessary that a dialogue, applying the same standards and peace appear once again in diplomacy dictionaries,” emphasized Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic Juraj Blanár today on the occasion of the International Day of Multilateralism and Diplomacy for Peace.

Following the Foreign Affairs Council (FAC) of the European Union session in Luxembourg today (22 April 2024), Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic Juraj Blanár confirmed the information that Slovakia will get less financial resources for the military aid, which the previous governments had provided to Ukraine since 2022 from the stocks of the Armed Forces of the Slovak Republic.

On 16 April 2024, the Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic, Juraj Blanár, received the Commissioner for Children, Jozef Mikloško in Bratislava. The Foreign Ministry is interested in intensifying cooperation in the field of child and youth protection in order to provide better protection and prevent cases threatening the rights of children abroad,

On 17 April 2024, the head of Slovak diplomacy Juraj Blanár signed an Implementation Protocol to the Memorandum of Cooperation between the Slovak Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs and the Slovak Olympic and Sports Committee (SOSC) with its President, Anton Siekel, at the premises of the Ministry. The partners have thus symbolically agreed on active cooperation 100 days before the start of the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad in Paris, which will be held from 26 July to 11 August 2024.

On Monday, 15 April 2024, the Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic, Juraj Blanár, received the new Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Turkey to Slovakia, Erkan Özoral. The head of Slovak diplomacy expressed his appreciation for Turkey's efforts to actively contribute to finding peaceful solutions to ongoing conflicts.