The president considers Žilina’s visit to Moscow inappropriate – SME.sk

BRATISLAVA. President Zuzana Caputova considers the path of the Attorney General Maroš Žilinka to the Russian Federation to celebrate the anniversary of the local prosecutor’s office as inappropriate. During her time, Žilinka also met with a person from the European Union’s sanctions list, Attorney General Igor Krasnov.

A spokeswoman for the president told SITA Martin Strižinec.

He does not consider disciplinary action necessary

“I am even more concerned that the Attorney General did not even understand why his journey was perceived as problematic,” the head of state said. However, he does not consider it necessary to initiate disciplinary proceedings against Žilinka.

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The chairman of the Defense Committee also shares the opinion

Juraj Krúpa (OĽaNO), chairman of the parliamentary committee for defense and security, also described the Prosecutor General’s trip as unfortunate.

He also criticized the conclusion of the agreement Prosecutor General’s Office Slovakia with the Russian Prosecutor’s Office in the field of cyber security, which according to him is “tragicomic”.

“You can already conclude an agreement on the development of democratic principles with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK),” Krupa said, adding that Russia’s prosecutor’s office is world-renowned for Similarly”.

“I do not think that this corresponds to the foreign policy interests of the Slovak Republic. He is a high-ranking official of the Slovak Republic, but I think he should be in the line of foreign policy interests of the Slovak Republic, and not his own, “said Krúpa to Žilinka.

Whether he should be prosecuted is considered by Krúpa to be a matter for the constitutional committee of the parliament.

He considers the visit to be a mistake

Defence Minister Jaroslav Naď (OĽaNO) connects Prosecutor General Maroš Žilinka’s trip to Moscow with the General Prosecutor’s Office’s comments on the Agreement on Defense Cooperation between Slovakia and the United States of America.

Žilina’s journey to the celebrations of the 300th anniversary of the Russian prosecutor’s office also came to the head of the Ministry of Defense, who considers it a big mistake. He said this on the show Braňo Závodský Naživo on radio Expres.

“I am absolutely convinced that Maroš Žilinka sent his comments of a political nature to this agreement because he was preparing his way to meet a person who is on the EU sanctions list in Moscow. He needed to be praised there, what a wonderfully pro-Russian he is, “Naď said.

However, he does not yet consider this a reason for disciplinary prosecution of the Attorney General.

At the invitation of the Russian Federation, Attorney General Maroš Žilinka took part in the celebrations of the anniversary of the Prosecutor General’s Office there last week. Several coalition politicians have been critical of his journey and of meeting with an EU sanctions man and have called for disciplinary action against him.