The Cabinet gave its approval for Slovakia to sign the Additional Protocol to the Council of Europe Convention on the Prevention of Terrorism at its session on Wednesday. The document responds to so-called foreign terrorist fighters and is aimed against the financing of individual terrorism and foreign terrorist fighters. According to the Justice Ministry, some of the measures stemming from the protocol were already adopted as part of an anti-terrorist package last year. The Government has commissioned Justice Minister Lucia Žitňanská (Most-Híd) and Foreign and European Affairs Minister Miroslav Lajčák (a Smer-SD nominee) with analysing the additional protocol and proposing necessary legislative changes in order to implement the protocol.
Mojmir Prochazka, Photo: TASR
