PM welcoming Russian vaccines was inappropriate

Matovič's partners react to purchase of Sputnik V.

Veronika Remišová's party blocked the purchase at a cabinet meeting a few weeks ago.Veronika Remišová's party blocked the purchase at a cabinet meeting a few weeks ago. (Source: SITA)

PM Igor Matovič's presence during the delivery of the Sputnik V vaccines in Slovakia is not considered appropriate, said Foreign Affairs Minister Ivan Korčok at a press conference after PM Igor Matovič and Health Minister Marek Krajčí travelled to Košice airport with a batch of Sputnik V vaccines behind them.

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“We could have been there during the arrival of the American, German, British-Swedish [vaccines] but we did not do that, because it does not make sense,” Korčok wrote on Facebook.

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He added that the origin of the country does not matter if the vaccine is properly registered in the EU. Sputnik V has not requested registration and that’s why the political attention of this unregistered vaccine is not right, Korčok added.

Not right, not safe

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