“The Alaska summit accomplished several tasks,” Fico said. “For the first time, it rejected a black-and-white view of the military conflict in Ukraine.”
The one-on-one meeting between the U.S. and Russian leaders also “kick-started the standardization of relations between Russia and the united States,” he said.
The meeting “seemed to erase the single mandatory stance on the war so firmly promoted by the Biden administration, and still pushed by a group of powerful players in the European Union,” Fico said.
The summit “held up a mirror to those European leaders who wish for a new Iron Curtain between Europe and Russia,” Fico said, noting that sanctions on the Russian leadership won’t help.
The Slovak leader has aligned himself with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán as a pro-Russian voice in the EU, but unlike Orbán, supported EU leaders’ statement to Trump ahead of the meeting in Alaska.
