... mechanisms of multilateral diplomacy in Europe and preparing relevant proposals for pan-European organizations. The session was addressed by Thomas Greminger, Secretary-General, OSCE; representatives of the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of Slovakia, the country holding chairmanship in the OSCE in 2019; diplomats and representatives of expert and analytical community. Russia was represented by Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, who made a speech at the session.
... kortunov, RIAc Director General, and Dmitry Trenin, Director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, RIAC Member, had a meeting with Marian Jakubocy, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic, visiting Moscow.
The relations between Russia and the European Union, as well as between Russia and the Visegrád Group states, were discussed in the context of Slovakia’s chairmanship in the OSCE. The meeting was also attended by the staff of the Slovak Embassy in Moscow and the Slovak Foreign Ministry. The event was moderated Peter Priputen, Ambassador of Slovakia to Russia.
... and Entrepreneurs took part in the meeting.
The seminar on Russia-EU relations was held within the Presidency of a European state in the EU Council. Since 2015 RIAC has held seminars with the Embassies of
Latvia
,
Luxemburg
, the Netherlands, and
Slovakia
.
The European Union's top court has rejected a challenge by Hungary and Slovakia to a migrant relocation deal devised in 2015
The European Union's top court has rejected a challenge by Hungary and Slovakia to a migrant relocation deal devised in 2015. The European Court of Justice overruled their objections to the compulsory fixed-quota scheme approved at the Union’s summit at ...
... Union”
Igor Ivanov’s Speech
Ladies and Gentlemen, dear friends!
On behalf of the Russian International Affairs Council let me welcome all of you here for our next regular EU–Russia discussion, this time — in the framework of the Slovakian Presidency in the European Union. Some of you present here know that the chain of these discussions goes back to 2014, when RIAC had the first event in this format together with the Italian Embassy. In 2015, we had the privilege of co-organizing meetings together with ...
...
EU and Russia: in Concert or Separately
”, the event was attended by Russia's Ambassador to Slovakia
Pavel Kuznetsov
, Slovakia's Ambassador to Moscow
Josef Migash
, Deputy Chair of the RF Commission for UNESCO
Alexander Dzasokhov
, as well as ... ... cooperation an absolute must.
According to
Miroslav Lajcak
, upon independence the Slovak Republic chose to advance toward the European Union and NATO, although not in search of historic truth but for security reasons. Currently, the EU is Russia's main ...
