TASS reports that Slovakia, Ukraine’s neighbor to the west, is ready to provide a negotiating platform for low-level meetings within the framework of a possible summit on a peace settlement in Ukraine, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said after consultations between the governments of Slovakia and Ukraine near Ukraine’s Uzhgorod. Since Fico’s election last year, Slovakia, an EU and NATO member, has held that diplomacy is necessary, that sending weapons into Ukraine escalates the warfare, and that NATO membership for Ukraine greatly escalates the warfare.
“If there should be meetings at a lower level, perhaps at the level where some parameters of a major summit would need to be discussed, I offer Slovak hospitality,” the Slovak TASR news agency quoted Fico as saying. Slovakia, as Fico noted, is interested in continuing intergovernmental consultations with Ukraine. They are scheduled to be held next time in Slovakia in January or February 2025.
