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Slovakia to Open Diplomatic Relations with Liechtenstein on Monday
Friday 18 December 2009 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, December 18 (TASR) - Slovakia and Liechtenstein are to open mutual diplomatic relations on Monday, December 21, when Liechtenstein Foreign Affairs Minister Aurelia Frick is to come for a visit to Bratislava, TASR was told by the Slovak Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesman Peter Stano.
Frick is to meet with her Slovak counterpart Miroslav Lajcak to sign the Memorandum on the Opening of Diplomatic Relations.
According to Lajcak, Lichtenstein is the last country in Europe with which Slovakia doesn't have diplomatic contacts. The Memorandum is a step toward the normalisation of relations, while it will facilitate the signing of basic agreements for business and cultural co-operation.
Liechtenstein cancelled diplomatic relations with the former Czechoslovakia in 1939, and didn't renew them after the WWII. Despite this, Slovakia and Liechtenstein have for many years co-operated within international organisations. Further conditions for standardisation of contacts were created by the Slovak accession to the EU and subsequent co-operation within the European economic area.
"The signature of the Memorandum will mean that Slovakia will recognise property rights of Liechtenstein citizens toward the Slovak Republic," said Peter Stano.
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