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TheSlovak Republic has been a member ofEuropean Union since 2004. Slovakia has been an active participant in U.S.- and NATO-led military actions. There is a joint Czech-Slovak peacekeeping force in Kosovo. After theSeptember 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack on theUnited States, the government opened its airspace to coalition planes. In June 2002, Slovakia announced that they would send an engineering brigade toAfghanistan.
Slovak Republic is a member of theUnited Nations and participates in its specialized agencies. It is a member of theOrganization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), theWorld Trade Organization (WTO), and theOECD. It also is part of theVisegrád Group (Slovakia,Hungary,Czech Republic, andPoland), a forum for discussing areas of common concern.Slovak Republic and the Czech Republic entered into aCustoms Union upon the division of Czechoslovakia in 1993, which facilitates a relatively free flow of goods and services.Slovak Republic maintainsdiplomatic relations with 189 countries.
Liechtenstein claims restitution of land in Slovakia confiscated from its princely family in 1918[1] by the then newly established state ofCzechoslovakia, the predecessor of theSlovak Republic. TheSlovak Republic insists that the power to claim restitution does not go back before February 1948, when the Communists seized power. Slovakia and Liechtenstein established diplomatic relations on 9 December 2009.[2]
Bilateral government, legal, technical and economic working group negotiations continued in 2006 between Slovakia and Hungary over Hungary's completion of its portion of theGabcikovo-Nagymaros hydroelectric dam project along theDanube.[3]
In July 2022 after theRussian invasion of Ukraine the Prime Minister of SlovakiaEduard Heger made it known that he had entered discussions with theCzech Republic over the protection of Slovak airspace by Czech warplanes in the event that the Slovaks were to donate toUkraine the remnants of the SlovakMiG-29 fighter jet fleet, in advance of the fleet's replacement and renewal (at the earliest in 2023) by AmericanF-16 warplanes.[4] The transaction would also include the remnants of Slovakia's Soviet-eraT-72 tanks.[4] Czech PMPeter Fiala agreed with this initiative,[5][6] which had been proposed by UkrainianPresident Zelensky.[4] The transaction was set to occur in September 2022.[7] In April 2023 it was confirmed that 13 Mig-29 fighters and 30 BVP-1 infantry fighting vehicles were delivered to Ukraine by Slovakia.[8]
In June 2020, Slovakia openly opposed theHong Kong national security law.[9]
List of countries which Slovakia maintains diplomatic relations with:
| # | Country | Date[10] |
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| 1 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 2 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 3 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 4 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 5 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 6 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 7 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 8 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 9 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 10 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 11 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 12 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 13 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 14 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 15 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 16 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 17 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 18 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 19 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 20 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 21 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 22 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 23 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 24 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 25 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 26 | 1 January 1993[11] | |
| — | 1 January 1993 | |
| 27 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 28 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 29 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 30 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 31 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 32 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 33 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 34 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 35 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 36 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 37 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 38 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 39 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 40 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 41 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 42 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 43 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 44 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 45 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 46 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 47 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 48 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 49 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 50 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 51 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 52 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 53 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 54 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 55 | 1 January 1993 | |
| — | 1 January 1993 | |
| 56 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 57 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 58 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 59 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 60 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 61 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 62 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 63 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 64 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 65 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 66 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 67 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 68 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 69 | 1 January 1993 | |
| — | 1 January 1993 | |
| 70 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 71 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 72 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 73 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 74 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 75 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 76 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 77 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 78 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 79 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 80 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 81 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 82 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 83 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 84 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 85 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 86 | 1 January 1993 | |
| 87 | 3 January 1993 | |
| 88 | 5 January 1993 | |
| 89 | 6 January 1993 | |
| 90 | 6 January 1993 | |
| 91 | 6 January 1993 | |
| 92 | 8 January 1993 | |
| 93 | 14 January 1993 | |
| 94 | 15 January 1993 | |
| 95 | 19 January 1993 | |
| 96 | 20 January 1993 | |
| 97 | 21 January 1993 | |
| 98 | 3 February 1993 | |
| 99 | 4 February 1993 | |
| 100 | 12 February 1993 | |
| 101 | 12 February 1993 | |
| 102 | 15 February 1993 | |
| 103 | 15 February 1993 | |
| 104 | 15 February 1993 | |
| 105 | 16 February 1993 | |
| 106 | 18 February 1993 | |
| 107 | 3 March 1993 | |
| 108 | 3 March 1993 | |
| 109 | 3 March 1993 | |
| 110 | 5 March 1993 | |
| 111 | 12 March 1993 | |
| 112 | 16 March 1993 | |
| 113 | 2 April 1993 | |
| 114 | 7 April 1993 | |
| 115 | 15 April 1993 | |
| 116 | 5 May 1993 | |
| 117 | 27 July 1993 | |
| 118 | 1 September 1993 | |
| 119 | 30 September 1993 | |
| 120 | 1 October 1993 | |
| 121 | 1 October 1993 | |
| 122 | 14 November 1993 | |
| 123 | 15 November 1993 | |
| 124 | 25 November 1993 | |
| 125 | 27 November 1993 | |
| 126 | 30 December 1993 | |
| 127 | 4 March 1994[12] | |
| 128 | 4 March 1994 | |
| 129 | 14 April 1994 | |
| 130 | 14 July 1994 | |
| 131 | 26 February 1995 | |
| 132 | 21 March 1995[12] | |
| 133 | 26 April 1995 | |
| 134 | 8 May 1995 | |
| 135 | 10 May 1995 | |
| 136 | 10 May 1995[12] | |
| 137 | 31 May 1995 | |
| 138 | 6 June 1995 | |
| 139 | 18 August 1995 | |
| 140 | 28 December 1995 | |
| 141 | 16 February 1996 | |
| 142 | 21 May 1996[12] | |
| 143 | 4 June 1996[12] | |
| 144 | 3 July 1996 | |
| 145 | 8 July 1996[13] | |
| 146 | 6 August 1996 | |
| 147 | 4 January 1997 | |
| 148 | 20 February 1997 | |
| 149 | 1 August 1997 | |
| 150 | 26 September 1997 | |
| 151 | 8 October 1997 | |
| 152 | 9 November 1997 | |
| 153 | 7 December 1997 | |
| 154 | 6 March 1998[12] | |
| 155 | 28 May 1998 | |
| 156 | 30 June 1998 | |
| 157 | 9 December 1998 | |
| 158 | 29 January 1999 | |
| 159 | 23 February 1999 | |
| 160 | 21 June 1999 | |
| 161 | 29 June 1999 | |
| 162 | 29 October 1999 | |
| 163 | 16 March 2000 | |
| 164 | 20 April 2000[12] | |
| 165 | 22 November 2000 | |
| 166 | 20 March 2001 | |
| 167 | 29 March 2001 | |
| 168 | 12 March 2002 | |
| 169 | 17 October 2002 | |
| 170 | 28 October 2002 | |
| 171 | 27 May 2004 | |
| 172 | 28 May 2004 | |
| 174 | 30 January 2006[12] | |
| 174 | 7 February 2006 | |
| 175 | 28 June 2006 | |
| 176 | 13 September 2006 | |
| 177 | 24 September 2007 | |
| 178 | 13 December 2007[14] | |
| 179 | 26 September 2008 | |
| 180 | 23 September 2009[12] | |
| 181 | 21 December 2009 | |
| 182 | 15 March 2011 | |
| 183 | 24 June 2011 | |
| 184 | 12 December 2011 | |
| 185 | 17 January 2012[15] | |
| 186 | 26 September 2012 | |
| 187 | 23 May 2013 | |
| 188 | 6 June 2017[16] | |
| 189 | 25 September 2025[12] | |
| 190 | 25 November 2025[17] | |
| Organization | Formal Relations Began | Notes |
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| See2004 enlargement of the European Union Slovakia joined theEuropean Union as a full member on 1 May 2004. | ||
Slovakia joinedNATO as a full member on 29 March 2004. |
| Country | Formal Relations Began | Notes |
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| SeeKenya–Slovakia relations |
| Country | Formal Relations Began | Notes |
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| 1994 | Slovakia is accredited to Belize from its embassy in Mexico City, Mexico.[18] | |
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Slovakia is accredited to Dominica from its embassy in Havana, Cuba.[18][20] | ||
| 1 January 1993 | SeeMexico–Slovakia relations In November 2017, Slovak PresidentAndrej Kiska paid an official visit to Mexico.[21]
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| 1 January 1993 | SeeSlovakia–United States relations
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| Country | Formal Relations Began | Notes |
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| SeeChina–Slovakia relations | ||
| August 1995 | SeeIndia-Slovakia relations Since August 1995 India has an embassy in Bratislava and Slovakia has an embassy inNew Delhi.[27]The Slovak Government welcomed and appreciated the opening of the Embassy of India, Bratislava (one of 32 resident missions) in August 1995, which was agreed during the former PM Moravcik's visit to India and considered it as a further indication of India's interest in enhancing relations with Slovakia.[28] | |
| 1993 | SeeIsrael–Slovakia relations Both countries established diplomatic relations in 1993. Israel has an embassy in Bratislava.[29]
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| 22 March 1990 | SeeSlovakia-South Korea relations The establishment of diplomatic relations between the Republic of Korea and the Slovak Republic began on 22 March 1990.
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| SeeSlovakia–Turkey relations | ||
| SeeSlovakia–Vietnam relations |
| Country | Formal Relations Began | Notes |
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| SeeAlbania–Slovakia relations The multi-national Communist armed forces' sole joint action was theWarsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968. All member countries, with the exception of thePeople's Republic of Albania and theSocialist Republic of Romania participated in the invasion. Albania formally withdrew form theWarsaw Pact in 1968 over the matter.[34]
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SeeAustria–Slovakia relations
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| 1 January 1993 | SeeBulgaria–Slovakia relations
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SeeCroatia–Slovakia relations
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| SeeCzech Republic–Slovakia relations Between 1918 and 1 January 1993, both countries were part ofCzechoslovakia. Both countries established diplomatic relations on 1 January 1993.
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| 1993 | SeeDenmark–Slovakia relations
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SeeEstonia–Slovakia relations
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| 1993 | SeeGermany–Slovakia relations Both countries established diplomatic relations in 1993 but previously had relations duringWorld War II when Slovakia was a separate state. Germany has an embassy in Bratislava. Slovakia has an embassy inBerlin, an embassy branch in Bonn, a general consulate inMunich. Germany plays an important part in the Slovak economy as it is Slovakia's main trading partner. | |
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| SeeMalta–Slovakia relations Malta is represented in Slovakia through a non-resident ambassador based inValletta (in the Foreign Ministry). Slovakia is represented in Malta through its embassy inRome (Italy) and an honorary consulate in Valletta.
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| 1993 | SeePoland–Slovakia relations | |
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| 1 January 1993 | SeeRomania–Slovakia relations
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| 1 January 1993 | SeeRussia–Slovakia relations
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| 1993 | SeeSerbia–Slovakia relations; also seeSlovakia's reaction to the 2008 Kosovo declaration of independence | |
SeeSlovakia–Spain relations
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| 1 January 1993 | SeeSlovakia–Ukraine relations
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| 1993 | SeeSlovakia–United Kingdom relations Slovakia establisheddiplomatic relations with the United Kingdom on 1 January 1993.[57]
Both countries share common membership of theCouncil of Europe, theEuropean Court of Human Rights, theInternational Criminal Court,NATO, theOECD, theOSCE, theUnited Nations, and theWorld Trade Organization. Bilaterally the two countries have a Double Taxation Convention.[60] |
| Country | Formal Relations Began | Notes |
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