Slovakia renews promise to take migrants

Slovakia today reiterated its promise to take illegal immigrants from Malta during talks in Valletta between Slovak Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajcak and Foreign Minister Tonio Borg.

The talks focused on bilateral political and economic relations as well as developments in the EU.

Dr Borg said the two countries wanted to build on the collaboration that existed when Malta helped Slovakia in the euro-adoption process.

He said there was particularly a need to improve trade exchanges and trade missions would be held by the respective governments with this aim in mind.

The two ministers also discussed Malta's offer to host the EU's European Asylum Support Office.

Mr Lajcak said that his country was committed to helping Malta to share its burden on illegal immigration. Slovakia would therefore be taking a number of illegal immigrants from Malta under the pilot project introduced by the EU for migrants granted protection.