Slovak Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajcak has threatened to resign if parliament and government approve a boycott of the UN migration summit in Morocco in December, as expected.
The meeting on 10 and 11 December will see the adoption of the internationally controversial paper. If Slovakia bows to the pressure of xenophobic populists, she must look for another foreign minister, said Lajcak on Friday to the radio station Expres.
The 55-year-old presided over the UN General Assembly until September 2018, when the Migration Pact was drafted. In Slovak politics, however, the Social Democrat-nominated but non-party minister has been increasingly criticized in recent weeks for his position on the global agreement.
It is expected that the parliamentary plenum in Bratislava will vote against signing in November - Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee had already done so a few days ago.
Lajcak: It is deliberately lied
Even the Social Democrat Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini already indicated that he wanted to bow to the negative attitude of his party leader Robert Fico. Fico had called the migration pact "unacceptable".
The co-governing National Party SNS went even further and put into the parliamentary committee the demand that Slovakia should not even be allowed to take part in further discussions on the topic at the UN level.
Lajcak criticized this as a "populist race for votes" with the sometimes more radical opposition. It deliberately lied, criticized Lajcak.