Together with Canada on eFP collaboration and child soldiers
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- Date: 19.06.2018
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State Secretary of the SVK MOD Róbert Ondrejcsák today (19 June) welcomed Canadian Chargé d'Affaires John von Kaufmann, Office of the Embassy of Canada in Slovakia, to the SVK MOD.
J. Kaufmann thanked for the SVK contribution to the Canadian-led eFP Battlegroup in Latvia and expressed his interest in looking into different options for promoting the cooperation between Canada and Slovakia on their eFP role.
R. Ondrejcsák appreciated the eFP collaboration with Canada thus far, stressing that it should serve as a springboard for intensifying bilateral cooperation in the field of security and defence. He said that a pre-deployment ceremony for our eFP contingent will be held this Thursday (21 June) and 152 soldiers will have reached Latvia by the end of next two weeks. This is one of the Alliance’s most important activities and at the same time our expression of solidarity with Allies. Slovakia intends to sustain its troops in the Baltics in the long term.
J. Kaufmann thanked for Slovakia’s endorsement of the Vancouver Principles on Peacekeeping and the Prevention of the Recruitment and Use of Child Soldiers. Having been adopted by the United Nations in the autumn of 2017, the Vancouver Principles were signed by 64 countries, including Slovakia. There are now efforts to draft a training manual to enhance the understanding of the child soldiers issue by service personnel deploying on Peace Support Operations (PSOs), which should be factored in to national doctrines and training before troops find themselves operating on PSO missions and operations.
R. Ondrejcsák pledged the SVK support for the training manual by making available the expertise of SVK troops from their deployments with the UN.
J. Kaufmann thanked for the SVK contribution to the Canadian-led eFP Battlegroup in Latvia and expressed his interest in looking into different options for promoting the cooperation between Canada and Slovakia on their eFP role.
R. Ondrejcsák appreciated the eFP collaboration with Canada thus far, stressing that it should serve as a springboard for intensifying bilateral cooperation in the field of security and defence. He said that a pre-deployment ceremony for our eFP contingent will be held this Thursday (21 June) and 152 soldiers will have reached Latvia by the end of next two weeks. This is one of the Alliance’s most important activities and at the same time our expression of solidarity with Allies. Slovakia intends to sustain its troops in the Baltics in the long term.
J. Kaufmann thanked for Slovakia’s endorsement of the Vancouver Principles on Peacekeeping and the Prevention of the Recruitment and Use of Child Soldiers. Having been adopted by the United Nations in the autumn of 2017, the Vancouver Principles were signed by 64 countries, including Slovakia. There are now efforts to draft a training manual to enhance the understanding of the child soldiers issue by service personnel deploying on Peace Support Operations (PSOs), which should be factored in to national doctrines and training before troops find themselves operating on PSO missions and operations.
R. Ondrejcsák pledged the SVK support for the training manual by making available the expertise of SVK troops from their deployments with the UN.
