{"id":1245913,"date":"2025-06-15T13:10:02","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T10:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/fico-calls-not-to-impose-sanctions-against-russia\/"},"modified":"2025-06-15T13:10:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T10:10:02","slug":"fico-calls-not-to-impose-sanctions-against-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/fico-calls-not-to-impose-sanctions-against-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Fico calls not to impose sanctions against Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"245\"><strong>Slovakia&#8217;s Prime Minister Robert Fico said his country would ask for a postponement of the vote on a new package of European Union sanctions against Russia until the gas supply issue is resolved.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"245\"> He announced this during a press conference.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"247\" data-end=\"592\"> Fico noted that he had instructed Foreign Minister Jurij Blanar at a ministerial meeting on June 18 not to support the sanctions package until the energy supply issue had been discussed.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"594\" data-end=\"741\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"> &#8220;We want this issue to be discussed first, not sanctions,&#8221; Fico said, adding: &#8220;Slovakia has no reason to suffer because of Ukraine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/slovachchyna-pohrozhuie-blokuvaty-sanktsii-yes-proty-rf\/\">Slovakia has previously threatened to block new European Union sanctions<\/a> against Russia if they threaten a peaceful resolution of the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p> Let us recall that German Chancellor Friedrich Merz stated that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/merts-pryhrozyv-prypynyty-finansuvannia-slovachchyny-iakshcho-vona-vidkhyliatymetsia-vid-spilnoho-kursu\/\">the European Union would stop funding Slovakia<\/a> if it continued to deviate from the bloc&#8217;s general course.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>&#8220;Pryamy&#8221;<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slovakia&#8217;s Prime Minister Robert Fico said his country would ask for a postponement of the vote on a new package of European Union sanctions against Russia until the gas supply issue is resolved. He announced this during a press conference. Fico noted that he had instructed Foreign Minister Jurij Blanar at a ministerial meeting on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1068332,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76875,76871,76872,76874],"class_list":["post-1245913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-news","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1245913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1068332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1245913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1245913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}