BRATISLAVA, May 23, (WEBNOVINY) – Leaders of the ruling coalition quartet did not meet as planned on Monday, since SDKU-DS Chairman and Foreign Affairs Minister Mikulas Dzurinda is attending a meeting of EU Foreign Affairs Council and the EU General Affairs Council in Brussels. High on the agenda of the Foreign Affairs Council will once again be the current development and the EU’s southern neighborhood policy toward in particular Libya and Syria, as well as developments in other countries in the region, including Yemen, Bahrain, Egypt and Tunisia. At the request of several member countries, including Slovakia, the Council will again discuss the EU response to the further deterioration of human rights situation and democracy in Belarus.
The ruling coalition leaders were to hold talks with Prime Minister Iveta Radicova at a regular informal meeting of representatives of the governing parties. The topics that were to be discussed included the election of the new prosecutor general and the head of the National Security Office. Furthermore, the coalition was to debate the draft amendment to the law regulating the use of ethnic minority languages in official communication from the workroom of MOST-HID. The amendment was approved by the Cabinet, but since then deputy factions have been raising objections to it. The chairmen of the coalition parties should meet later this week instead.
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