Slovakia dispatched a government plane with humanitarian aid weighing almost 6 tons on 1 March 2023. This will help people in Syria to alleviate the consequences of the disastrous earthquake that hit the country at the beginning of February.

The Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic welcomes the political agreement on the implementation of the Northern Ireland Protocol between President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen and the British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, which was achieved in Windsor on Monday, 27 February 2023.

A blood donation initiative of the Embassy of the Slovak Republic started back in June 2022.

On Tuesday, January 24th, 2023 in the evening, the Permanent Representative of the Slovak Republic to the UN, Ambassador Michal Mlynár with his spouse Andrea, and the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications, Ms. Melissa Fleming opened an exhibition on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Slovak Republic and Slovakia´s membership of the UN: “Successful Launch of Mission Slovakia” on the grounds of the UN Headquarters.

As a part of the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Slovakia`s membership at the UN, the Permanent Representative of the Slovak Republic to the UN, Ambassador Michal Mlynár, in cooperation with the Slovak-American Cultural Centre (S-ACC), and the local branch of Živena, organized an informal discussion, “fireside chat”, for Slovaks living in the USA, under the title „Slovakia at the UN, then and now”.

The Permanent Representative of Slovak Republic to the UN in New York, ambassador Michal Mlynár together with his wife Andrea, organized a Gala Evening on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of Slovakia’s membership to the UN.

The first part of the celebrations was organized by the Embassy of the Slovak Republic in Riga as a gala concert which took place on Wednesday, January 18, in the Great Hall of the J. Vitols Academy of Performing Arts in the capital of Latvia.

The Embassy of the Slovak Republic in Riga celebrated the 30th anniversary of the establishment of Slovakia and Slovak-Lithuanian diplomatic relations with two events in Lithuanian capital Vilnius.

United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres announced on Wednesday, 21 December 2022, the appointment of the current Permanent Representative of the Slovak Republic to the United Nations in New York, Ambassador Michal Mlynár, as Deputy Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) with headquarters in Nairobi.

On 9 December 2022, the Slovak film drama Cellar produced by L. Filusova was screened at the 15th annual international film festival in Noida.