Updated on 09/25/2022 at 10:37 pm
- Ukraine’s neighbor Slovakia has rejected public acceptance of Russian conscientious objectors.
- According to a Slovak Foreign Ministry spokesperson, “Slovakia assesses each individual case individually”.
- Slovakia, an EU and NATO country, takes a similar stance to the Baltic states, the Czech Republic and Poland with these visa regulations announced by the Foreign Office.
when Deutschland Neighboring Ukraine was still debating it Slovakia Russian conscience rejected public acceptance of dissenters. “Slovakia assesses each individual case individually,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Juraj Tomáka told the German Press Agency on Sunday. In principle, Slovakia grants visas on humanitarian grounds, but there is no clear rule that conscientious objection is also a sufficient reason.
Poland, the Baltic States and the Czech Republic follow a similar position
Some Russian citizens have the impression that Slovakia is deliberately delaying the issuance of visas – not only for humanitarian reasons, but also for research purposes, for example – primarily because Russia He reduced the staff of the Slovak representations in Moscow and St. Petersburg by “an unsubstantiated decision”. The spokesperson referred to the diplomatic dispute between Slovakia and Russia. In late March, Slovakia expelled 35 employees of the Russian embassy on suspicion of espionage, prompting Moscow to reciprocate.
Slovakia, an EU and NATO country, takes a similar stance to the Baltic states, the Czech Republic and Poland with these visa regulations announced by the Foreign Office. However, in the neighboring Czech Republic, President Miloš Zeman distanced himself from the Czech government’s position. “The person who leaves Russia is not a security risk for us,” Zeman said in a televised interview on Sunday. Russians who don’t want to fight in the Ukraine war should be absorbed like refugees from Ukraine. UkraineThe President has requested.
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Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky previously said: “Those who leave their country because they do not want to fulfill their obligations to their home state do not meet the conditions for a humanitarian visa.”(dpa/jst)
Despite the partial mobilization, Russia continues to view the war against Ukraine as a legal “special military operation”. Earlier in the day, President Vladimir Putin ordered a partial mobilization to deploy more troops in Ukraine.
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