Former Slovak Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajcak and former envoy for the Kosovo-Serbia dialogue has announced that, following the publication of communications with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, he is resigning from his position as advisor to Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, Slovak media report.
Lajcak condemned the crimes committed by Jeffrey Epstein and emphasized in his statement that if he had known in the past the full extent of Epstein's actions, there would have been no communication between them.
Prime Minister Fico announced that he would accept Lajcak's resignation.
"Miro has once again proven himself to be an excellent diplomat and I accept his offer to end our cooperation, although all of us, not just me, are losing an extraordinary source of experience in diplomacy and foreign policy. It is strange that a similar symbiosis of the media, opposition and government parties did not target the opposition leader Simecek, who, through grant fraud at the Slovak and EU levels, represents a much greater risk to the reputation of our country than the Prime Minister's advisor, Miroslav Lajčák," Fico said.