Slovakia supports corridors of solidarity through which agricultural products from Ukraine reach world markets, Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Jozef Bires, Transport Minister Pavol Lancaric, parliamentary agriculture and environment committee chairman Jaroslav Karahuta and Prime Minister's adviser for EU affairs Lubica Karvasova concurred at an online meeting with Ukraine's Agrarian Policy and Food Minister Mykola Solskyi and Ukrainian Ambassador to Slovakia Myroslav Kastran.
"We perceive that the crisis caused by the Russian invasion has affected the entire agricultural sector in the EU and, together with the European Commission, we will continue to look for common solutions that will contribute to improving the current serious situation in Ukraine. I consider Russia's attitude, which prevents the supply of agricultural products to world markets, to be unacceptable," stated Bires.
The head of the Agriculture Ministry emphasised that, from Slovakia's point of view, it's also necessary to deal with the secondary consequences of imports from Ukraine due to overflowing storage capacities of regular buyers of cereals as well as further shortfalls in revenues and the growing volume of imports of sugar, honey and eggs, which also negatively affect European markets, but primarily the states bordering Ukraine.
Source: TASR
