Diplomat Metod Špaček. (source: TASR)
Starting in July, seasoned diplomat Metod Špaček was supposed to have become Slovakia's permanent representative to the United Nations in New York. However, that will not happen.
"In May, they informed me that I would not be going to New York on July 1, as my assignment was reevaluated for political reasons," he told the Denník N daily.
Špaček, who has served as a director of President Zuzana Čaputová's presidential office until recently, was also dismissed from the Foreign Affairs Ministry after 20 years, reports Denník N. President Čaputová, who did not run for reelection and whose term ended on June 15, was often attacked and criticised by the Smer-led administration, including by its former member and Slovakia's new president, Peter Pellegrini.
When he was asked by the daily to elaborate on "political reasons", he said that there might be two reasons why the ministry stopped him from going to the US.
