Gaspar: Opposition Wants to Drag Slovakia into War

Bratislava, March 6 (TASR) - The opposition wants to drag Slovakia and Europe into a war, said coalition MP Tibor Gaspar (Smer-SD) following Thursday's meeting of the parliamentary committee on European Affairs, adding that Prime Minister Robert Fico (Smer-SD) clearly declared at the committee session what stances he'll present at the European Council summit and how he'll defend Slovakia's national interests. "The way they assess the current political situation at the level of the European Union (EU) or the security situation in connection with the war in Ukraine clearly indicates that they are interested, like many militant leaders of EU-member states, in continuing to wage this conflict, to let many Ukrainians and Russians continue to be killed instead of trying to call for peace with their own voice," claimed Gaspar. The MP said that he doesn't want the Ukraine-Russia war to turn into a war between the European Union and Russia, while claiming that there are countries that are interested in doing this, which he sees as an attempt to start a Third World War. am/df