Slovakia will maintain a ban on the import of certain types of agricultural products from Ukraine

Slovakia plans to continue to maintain a ban on the import of certain agricultural products from Ukraine, said Prime Minister of the Republic Robert Fico. At the end of November 2023, the Slovak government expanded the embargo on the supply of agricultural products from Ukraine from 4 to 14 positions, including in this list not only wheat, corn, rapeseed and sunflower seeds, but also, for example, honey, soybeans, barley, flour, bran , cane and beet sugar. “I assured sugar producers in Slovakia that we will protect them, especially from imports from Ukraine,” Fico said in a statement to the press after visiting a sugar production plant in northwestern Slovakia. He recalled that earlier the government of the republic extended the ban on the import of many agricultural products from Ukraine. “Next week I will have a meeting with the Ukrainian Prime Minister in Uzhgorod, where we will explain that it is one thing to help Ukraine with heating or mine clearance, but the assistance ...