🤝 President of Russia Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister of the Slovakia Robert Fico held talks in Beijing (September 2, 2025)

💬 President Putin: Mr. Prime Minister, colleagues.

We are very pleased to see you here.

I recall your visit to Moscow and would like to thank you once again for joining us then and sharing with us all the emotions associated with the Victory in the Second World War and the struggle against Nazism. Now, we meet again in Beijing at similar commemorative events dedicated to the conclusion of World War II.

We greatly appreciate the independent foreign policy that you and your government are pursuing, which is producing positive results, most notably in terms of economic performance.

In this regard, I would like to emphasise that Russia remains a reliable supplier of energy resources. Furthermore, several Slovak companies continue to operate successfully in the Russian market, which, in my view, also benefits the Slovak economy as a whole.

Nevertheless, we continue to face challenging conditions due to various external restrictions. At one time, our trade turnover reached 10 billion dollars. Today, it has fallen to less than 4% of that figure. There are, however, some positive developments, and I hope we will be able to strengthen and sustain these trends.

I am very pleased to have the opportunity to meet with you again here in Beijing, on the sidelines of the events commemorating the 80th Anniversary of the end of World War II. <...>

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