Fico: 'Are we just supposed to sit back while the Russians sell oil and gas to the Americans, who then resell it to us with a markup, as if we were idiots?'
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Fico Defends Meeting With Putin
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico:
"I meet with Putin and everyone criticizes, and when I return after the meeting with Putin, everyone in the restrooms in Brussels asks me what he said. So, why do they not go and communicate with him too?"
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Fico Criticizes UN as Ineffective
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico:
Why was the United Nations created? Well, because it was supposed to ensure peace and the use of military force only where it is necessary to secure peace.
Today the UN is a laughingstock. Who will stop the Americans in Iraq? Who stopped Russia in Ukraine? Who stopped the Americans in Iran? Who stopped the Americans, for example, in Venezuela?
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