Taiwan is a far more important economic partner of Slovakia than China, visiting Slovak National Council Deputy Speaker Milan Laurencik said yesterday.
Laurencik, on the second day of his 10-member delegation’s visit to Taiwan from Sunday until Friday, made the remarks when meeting Premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌), adding that it was a pleasure to visit Taiwan.
“Taiwan is geographically far from Slovakia, but the two have the same goal of safeguarding democracy,” Laurencik said.
He expressed gratitude to Taiwan for donating 700,000 masks to Slovakia when the COVID-19 pandemic there was at its most serious.
Laurencik said he believed that Slovakia and Taiwan would
DUAL DONATIONS: Milan Laurencik said he believed that Slovakia and Taiwan would remember the COVID-19 pandemic as a time when the ties became closer and strongerBy Chen Yu-fu and Liu Tzu-hsuan / Staff reporter, with staff writer