Party of the Democratic Left Deputy Chairman Peter Weiss told Národná obroda on August 1 that his party is initiating talks with other opposition parties to coordinate foreign policy aimed at boosting Slovakia's NATO and European Union integration efforts. "If Prime Minister Vladimír Mečiar does not want to go down in history as a man who damaged Slovakia's long-term interests," Weiss stressed, "he has to take unavoidable democratic steps."
