On Wednesday, President Andrej Kiska met with the Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen who arrived for his first official visit to Slovakia. “I highly appreciate that my country is the third, right after Germany and Switzerland, which the President has visited. It is an expression of...

I met Mustafa Dzhemilev who during #Soviet regime protested against 1968 invasion into my country. A man of courage

On Wednesday, President of the Slovak Republic Andrej Kiska received the representative of the Crimean Tartar people Mustafa Dzhemilev,  a member of the Ukrainian Parliament, a former political prisoner, a life-long defender of human rights, freedom and democracy, who has been nominated for the...

On Thursday, with the conclusion of his official visit to Israel, President Andrej Kiska met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem. "It is important for the European Union and Israel to have good relations," President Andrej Kiska said. The key topic of the conversation was...

On Wednesday, President Andrej Kiska continued his visit of Israel negotiating with the Israeli President Reuven Rivlin and by attending the main Israeli remembrance institute of holocaust victims and heroes, the Yad Vashem Museum. With his Israeli counterpart, Kiska discussed mainly cooperation...

On Tuesday, President Andrej Kiska continued his official visit of Israel and paid a working visit to Palestine, too. In Tel Aviv, he held talks with the representatives of the State Innovation Agency and visited the Tel Aviv University to attend the inauguration ceremony of the Slovak-Israeli...

On Monday, President Andrej Kiska started his official visit to Israel in the city of Haifa where he paid a visit to the Israel Institute of Technology, Technion and the Rambam Medical Centre whose garages can in a critical situation be transformed into a fully functional underground...

On Thursday, President Andrej Kiska made a speech in the 17th year of the Evaluation Conference of Foreign and European Policy, hosted traditionally by the Slovak Foreign Policy Association in cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic: “I am glad...

On Wednesday, during his official visit to Kenya, President Andrej Kiska paid a visit to a nut processing plant which is a result of Slovak development aid as well as to iHub Nairobi, the most significant innovation centre in Kenya. The nut processing plant is a common project of Integra (a...

During his official visit to Kenya, President Andrej Kiska had an informal meeting with the UN ex-Secretary General Pan Ki-mun at the latter´s request. Pan Ki-mun highly appreciated Slovakia´s ongoing involvement in the multi-lateral arena which can be illustrated by its candidacy for the...