"Thank you for your cordial invitation to the jubilee anniversary on January 1st, I also want to express my regret that I will not have the opportunity to participate in it personally," reads the letter of President Katalin Novák addressed to Slovak President Zuzana Caputová and obtained by the Hungarian Nation.
Zuzana Caputová invited Katalin Novák to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the establishment of the Slovak Republic on January 1st, but - as is clear from the letter - she canceled the visit to Bratislava in accordance with diplomatic regulations, citing the Hungarian president's official duties, so it was not "diplomatic paralysis". happened, as the entire left-liberal Hungarian press said on Monday.
The left-liberal Slovakian daily Napunk, which indulged in malicious assumptions, first wrote about - then the domestic left-wing papers also mocked - that Hungary was the only one of Slovakia's neighbors not to be represented at the celebration held on the occasion of its 30th anniversary. Czech Milos Zeman, Austrian Alexander Van der Bellen and Polish President Andrzej Duda, as well as Markéta Pekarová Adamová, Speaker of the Czech House of Representatives, and Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Irina Vereschuk also took part.
Although Napunk itself admits that "there is no public information about Katalin Novák's program on January 1st, so it is not possible to know why she could not accept Caputová's invitation", with the headline, she suggests that the Hungarian president made a diplomatic mistake. "The fact that Katalin Novák did not come to the celebration of Slovakia's 30th birthday could have been diplomatic paralysis without bad intentions," reads the title of Napunk's article.
The full article of Magyar Nemzet can be read here.
Photo: Noémi Bruzák (archive)
