Slovakia–United Kingdom relations
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Slovakia–United Kingdom relations are foreign relations between Slovakia and United Kingdom. The United Kingdom has an embassy in Bratislava, while Slovakia has an embassy in London.
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Both countries established diplomatic relations in 1993. Both countries are full members of NATO and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.
1939 relations
editAfter the declaration of independence of the Slovak State on March 14, 1939, the United Kingdom did not issue recognition of the new state. But on May 4, 1939 the British government requested that Peter Pares, previously British consul in the Sudetenland, be recognized as the British consul in Bratislava. On May 15, 1939 Richard Butler stated to the House of Commons that the move constituted a de facto recognition of the Slovak State.[1][2] The Slovak State sent Milan A. P. Harminc to London as its consul-general. However, after the German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939 Harminc and the Slovak ambassador in Warsaw Ladislav Szathmáry protested against the Slovak participation in the assault and subordinated themselves to Edvard Beneš' Czechoslovak government-in-exile.[3]
Agreements
editThe two countries ratified an air services agreement in 2004.[4]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Vít Smetana. In the Shadow of Munich. British Policy towards Czechoslovakia from 1938 to 1942. Karolinum Press, 2008. pp. 133-134
- ^ Time. SLOVAKIA: Troubled Hero. May 15, 1939
- ^ Mikuláš Teich, Dušan Kováč, Martin D. Brown. Slovakia in History. Cambridge University Press, 2011. pp. 194-195
- ^ "Agreement between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of the Slovak Republic concerning Air Services CM 6750 - 6750.pdf" (PDF).
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