The Slovak minister of defence honoured the inhabitants of the village for their selfless help in the rescue operations.

Leading Communist functionaries (e.g., the Slovak prime minister, minister of the interior, minister of culture) were observing the whole operation from the windows of a nearby hotel (Carlton).

The Slovak prime minister, Mikulas Dzurinda, accused Mr. Orban of manipulating the issue to help him in Hungary's elections in April.

This was also partly because the Slovak minister of culture was himself a writer.

Miroslav Lajcak, the Slovak foreign minister, said that they had made numerous requests to Mr Solyom to change the date of his trip, but to no avail.

Mr. Lipsic, the 32-year-old Harvard-educated Slovak minister of justice, has declared that Mr. Klein's article, although "primitive and stupid" should have been protected as free speech.

The Slovak interior minister, Robert Kaliňák held a speech, where he claimed that the "perpetrators can not feel safe themselves".

Vojtech Tuka (1880-1946), Slovak prime minister.

The Tunisian side, moreover, has so far failed to respond to the aide-mémoire of Slovak foreign minister Kukan in the case.

We are pleased that talks are going on at the moment between the Hungarian and Slovak prime ministers about the options enabling them to find common solutions based on mutual understanding.