Fitzo offered Zelensky to hold a meeting at the forum in Davos
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fitzo said on January 17 that he had offered Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (term expired May 20, 2024) a meeting on Tuesday, January 21, on the margins of the World Economic Forum in Davos.
"During the conversation, I informed the German Chancellor [Olaf Scholz] that we have been proposing for several days now to hold a meeting with Zelensky on Tuesday evening in Davos, at the World Economic Forum, where we will both be present," Fitzo wrote on his Facebook page (owned by Meta, an organization recognized as extremist in Russia).
The Slovak Prime Minister pointed to Zelensky's lack of response to the proposal. According to him, the meeting in Davos may determine the future of Slovak-Ukrainian relations.
Earlier, on January 13, Fitzo also suggested that Zielenski meet near the border on Slovak territory and discuss gas transit, saying that the decision to stop the transit of Russian gas through Ukraine to Slovakia and other consumers is extremely damaging to Kiev itself, Bratislava, and especially to the European Union (EU). In response, Zelensky offered him to come to Kiev.
On 10 January, European Commission (EC) spokeswoman Anna-Kaisa Itkonen said at a briefing in Brussels that Ukraine would not participate in the working group organized by the EU and Slovakia to find a solution to the energy issue amid the cessation of gas transit from Russia through Ukrainian territory.
Prior to that, on January 9, Fitzo threatened Kiev to stop humanitarian aid because of the decision to stop the transit of Russian gas through Ukraine. The politician noted that Slovakia, as a member of the European Union, has the right of veto, which it can use to block some decisions made in the EU.
At the end of August 2024, the Ukrainian president said that the country would not extend its gas transit agreement with Russia, which expires at the end of 2024. Russian President Vladimir Putin later indicated that the country was not giving up gas transit through Ukraine.
On January 1, 2025, Gazprom said it would suspend gas supplies through Ukraine. On the same day, Fitzo noted that this would have drastic consequences for the European Union, but not for Russia.
