State Secretary of the Slovak Foreign and European Affairs Ministry Rastislav Chovanec held a working visit to the Prešov region on 18-19 April 2024. He discussed with Prešov university students about the advantages of the SR membership in the European Union, and also visited companies that, in addition to their export activities, have an important position in the region.

Today (4 April 2024), State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic, Rastislav Chovanec, received the new Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Turkey to Slovakia, Erkan Özoral on his inaugural visit. The meeting confirmed the interest of both countries to continue to develop cooperation with the aim to strengthen trade and investment opportunities in Slovakia and Turkey. It followed a visit by the Head of Slovak diplomacy, Juraj Blanar, who held talks with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan at the Diplomatic Forum in Antalya, in early March.

State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic Rastislav Chovanec paid a working visit to the Banská Bystrica Region this week. He met with major Slovak exporters operating in this region, learned about their production and openly discussed the problems faced by exporters in promoting themselves in foreign markets.

On 18 March 2024, State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic, Rastislav Chovanec, held talks with the Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Mathias Cormann, who arrived in Bratislava for the launch of the new OECD Economic Survey of Slovakia.

State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic, Rastislav Chovanec, spoke today (15 March 2024) at the Polish Institute in Bratislava at the conference "The Three-Seas Initiative - Discussing Options for Achieving Regional Economic Policy Goals", organised by the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Bratislava and the Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in Vienna, accredited to the Slovak Republic, in cooperation with the Embassy of the Republic of Romania in Bratislava, the Slovak Foreign Policy Association and the Centre for Eastern Studies from Warsaw. The aim was to discuss the topic of achieving regional economic policy goals of the individual European Union states with an emphasis on promoting common actions within the Union.