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| Johnson: I’m here as a messenger |
| Bratislava, 27.09.2017 |
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| The British politician visited Slovakia, talking Brexit issues.
While British Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Boris Johnson joked during a press conference in Bratislava, at a meeting with Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico and State Secretary of the Foreign Affairs Ministry Ivan Korčok, they also discussed serious issues.
“I’m here as a messenger,” said Johnson, who visited Slovakia during his short tour around the eastern European countries, where he conveyed the speech of British PM Theresa May from Florence, as quoted by the Denník N daily.
Position of EU citizens important
May tried to offer to Europeans certain concessions to make progress with Brexit talks. The fourth round started on September 25. After the third round, EU’s chief negotiator Michel Barnier said that no significant progress had been made in any crucial area.
Johnson pointed to three main topics of May’s speech, with the most important one being the status of EU citizens in the UK after Brexit. Currently, some 95,000 Slovaks are living in the country, Denník N wrote.
Johnson also said that the UK will contribute €20 million to the EU coffers until 2020 and that his country is interested in contributing to Europe’s protection and security, including the fight against extremism, the daily reported.
No harm to Slovaks
Slovak citizens living and working in the UK will suffer no harm after Brexit, Fico said after meeting with
Johnson.
“Boris Johnson came in a positive mood and assured us that the Slovak citizens living in Britain won’t be harmed in any way in the future, which is the most important message for us,” said Fico, as quoted by the TASR newswire, adding that his government will protect the interests of Slovaks studying and working in the UK.
The UK is an important business partner for Slovakia, Fico stressed.
“Not to mention the massive investment of Jaguar Land Rover that will bear fruit in the near future,” he added, as quoted by TASR, stressing the need to set new relations between the EU and the UK that will be beneficial for Slovakia.
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