BRATISLAVA (dpa-AFX) – Slovakian former Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajcak has announced his resignation as government advisor in connection with the publication of further Epstein documents. The TASR agency reported that he had fulfilled a demand from the opposition and parts of the coalition. The left-wing nationalist Prime Minister Robert Fico accepted the decision, but at the same time regretted the loss of an experienced foreign policy advisor.
Media reports on explosive conversation
The news portal “360tka” had previously published chat logs that were said to come from the investigation files into the Epstein case newly published by the US Department of Justice. According to these, the US multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein Lajcak offered young women. They were “probably too young for you,” Epstein wrote, to which Lajcak replied: “You haven’t seen me in action.” In return, the politician offered his contacts to Fico. Lajcak, however, rejected the allegations: “I am in shock.” He never spoke to Epstein about women and did not organize any meetings for him.
Lajcak was Slovak Foreign Minister from 2009 to 2010 and again from 2012 to 2020. From September 2017 to September 2018 he served as President of the UN General Assembly. The US Department of Justice recently published further investigation files into the case of sex offender Epstein. There are more than three million pages of documents, thousands of videos and well over 100,000 photos. Epstein was found hanging in his New York prison cell in 2019./hei/DP/zb
