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P. Gajdoš: Biathletes Paulína and Ivona Fialková have our full support, it is absolutely unjustifiable that they are banned from representing Slovakia
Members of the Military Sports Centre DUKLA Banská Bystrica Paulína and Ivona Fialkové have the full support of Minister of Defence Peter Gajdoš and Minister of Education, Science, Research and Sports Martina Lubyová. This information was confi…
Exercise Anakonda-18: SVK troops embark on Ex An-18, Polandʼs largest training event
120 troops from HQ 2nd Mechanized Brigade and other elements of the SVK Army will participate in Ex Anakonda-18 (AN-18), Polandʼs largest exercise, organised by the Polish Armed Forces on Bemovo Piskie Training Area in Orzysz, Poland. …
NRF/VJTF: Elite 5th Special Forces Regiment undergoes certification for NATO Spearhead Force
62 personnel of the elite 5th Special Forces Regiment (5th SOF Regt) Žilina are undergoing a Special Operations Forces Evaluation (SOFEVAL) process in order to confirm their capabilities in support of the NATO Response Force’s Very High Readine…
Service pay will increase significantly next year
Service pay will increase significantly next year. This follows on from the Personnel Management Concept which is now being finalised. The MOD will submit it to the Cabinet for consideration this December. Under the new pay arrangements, th…
Soldiers will participate in floorball league, they want to inspire young people to join Army
Defence Minister Peter Gajdoš wants to stir up pupilsʼ and studentsʼ interest in doing sports and following a healthy lifestyle as a prerequisite to join the Army. Towards this end, the MOD has teamed up with the TV JOJ Foundation to cooperate …
A new Memorial, commissioned in memory of servicemen and women who have died in the line of duty on missions and operations abroad, unveiled on Háj-Nicovô Hill
A new Memorial, commissioned in memory of the servicemen and women who have died in the line of duty on crisis management missions and operations abroad, has been unveiled today (22 November) in the grounds of the Memorial and War Cemetery on H…
V4 EU Battlegroup will be reinforced by Croatia in 2019
The V4 EU Battlegroup will be reinforced by Croatia in 2019. This was confirmed by the V4 defence ministers and their Croatian counterpart as they signed the Note of Accession of Croatia in a signing ceremony held on the margins of the EU Defen…
Cooperation with Private Secondary Technical School Exnárova 20, Bratislava – Ružinov has the potential to contribute to MOD efforts to modernise SVK Air Force
Open Doors Day at Private Secondary Technical School Exnárova 20, Bratislava - Ružinov (SSOŠ Ružinov), which is aimed at promoting the technical study programmes to be opened in the 2019/2020 school term, has attracted the Slovak Armed Forces. …
EU defence and foreign affairs ministers confirm a new wave of PESCO projects in Brussels
The second wave of Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) projects – the joint initiative of EU countries is becoming a reality. This was confirmed by EU defence and foreign affairs ministers at the meeting of the Foreign Affairs Council (Def…
State Secretary Róbert Ondrejcsák in visit to Canada
State Secretary of the SVK MOD (Deputy Minister of Defence) Róbert Ondrejcsák paid a visit to Canada on 14-18 November 2018, to hold a series of bilateral talks with his partners from the Canadian Department of National Defence (DND) and repres…
Struggle for Freedom and Democracy Day: Let us not allow the legacy of 17 November 1989 to fade away, says P. Gajdoš
Minister of Defence Peter Gajdoš along with Parliamentary Chairman Andrej Danko attended a ceremony held in observance of Struggle for Freedom and Democracy Day at the Monument dedicated to the Victims of Communism at the cemetery in Bratislava…
Minister Gajdoš welcomes troops returning from Iraq and bids farewell to Afghanistan-bound personnel
Minister of Defence Peter Gajdoš welcomed 25 soldiers returning from the NATO Training and Capacity Building Initiative in Iraq (NTCB-I) during a homecoming ceremony at the Repair Battalion in Martin today (16 November). That same day, he also …
V4 countries will stand up two EU BGs in coming years, they will add to the EU’s responsiveness to crisis situations in its immediate neighbourhood
The Visegrad Group European Union Battlegroup (V4 EU BG) will be on stand-by for deployment in the second half of 2019 in an attempt to accommodate the needs of the EU. The V4 Defence Ministers agreed on this today (15 November) and also decide…
Visegrad Group countries will support cooperation on military education
Thanks to the initiative of the General M. R. Štefánik Armed Forces Academy in Liptovský Mikuláš, the V4 areas of cooperation will be extended to include professional military education. This was confirmed by the key V4 military education estab…
Best performers of Military Sports Centre Dukla Banská Bystrica receive awards for 2018
Today (15 November), best performers of the Military Sports Centre Dukla Banská Bystrica received awards in 8 categories for their 2018 sporting successes during an awards ceremony in Banská Bystrica. Also in attendance at the gala evening were…
Two-day V4 Defence Ministers Meeting opens in the High Tatras
A two-day meeting of the V4 Defence Ministers, the first one in this format during the Slovak V4 Presidency, has officially opened today (14 November) in Tatranská Lomnica in the High Tatras. On the Visegrad Group and the SVK V4 Presidency…
MOD civilian and military staff observe Struggle for Freedom and Democracy Day
MOD civilian and military staff assembled at the MOD Club to observe Struggle for Freedom and Democracy Day, reminiscing about 17 November 1989. Reflecting on the happenings over the past year, Minister of Defence Peter Gajdoš said: “Demo…
Slovak personnel will deploy to Iraq again, Parliamentary Defence and Security Committee approves their deployment
SVK Army and Military Police personnel will serve in Iraq as part of the new non-combat NATO Mission Iraq (NMI). The proposal for their deployment has been approved by MPs on the Parliamentary Committee on Defence and Security today (13 Novembe…
Defence Minister P. Gajdoš meets with Israeli Ambassador Z. A. Vapni
Defence Minister P. Gajdoš met with the Israeli Ambassador to Slovakia, His Excellency Mr Zvi Aviner Vapni at MOD Main Building for talks on potential areas of bilateral cooperation. At the meeting, Ambassador Vapni introduced Col Itaia Brin as…
MOD will recommend that Cabinet approve continuation of MiG-29 fleet operation until such time as F-16 fighter jets are delivered
The SVK Ministry of Defence will recommend that the SVK Cabinet approve the continuation of the SVK Air Force MiG-29 fleet operation until such time as the U.S. F-16 C/D Block 70 fighter jets are delivered. This conclusion follows on from a det…
CBRN specialists from 11 OPCW countries deploy on exercise to Slovakia
The CBRN Training and Testing Centre Zemianske Kostoľany is hosting a course for lab experts from 11 countries of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in the coming days. The aim of the course is to fine-tune the meth…
WW1 Armistice Centenary: Fallen Czechoslovak soldiers remembered at Chestres National Necropolis in the French town of Vouziers
To mark the 100th anniversary of the World War One Armistice, delegations of participating countries to the WW1 Centenary commemoration at the Nécropole Nationale de Chestres (Chestres National Necropolis) in the French town of Vouziers paid tr…
