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(The unit of measure should not exceed one ten thousandth of the total military expenditures.

Address by Mr. Ivan Gašparovič, President of the Slovak Republic

b The Slovakian contingent includes soldiers from Croatia (2).

Mr. Ivan Gašparovič, President of the Slovak Republic, was escorted into the General Assembly Hall.

The President The Assembly will now hear an address by the President of the Slovak Republic.

On March 12, 1939, the Slovak State declared its independence as a satellite state under Jozef Tiso.

The pace of Slovak economic growth has continued to exceed that of Czech growth to the present day (2003).

On 22 February 1993, the Czech Republic notified its succession to the Covenant and the Optional Protocol.

Aftermath The Slovak part of Czechoslovakia made major gains in industrial production in the 1960s and 1970s.

Both the Royal Hungarian Army and the Royal Hungarian Air Force fought in the brief Slovak Hungarian War.

The Slovak government is still in power, but it has lost its majority and could fall soon.

The Slovak Republic is also member of the Working Group on Terrorism (WGT) at the EU Council and of Europol.

Slovak troops take part in peacekeeping missions in relatively high numbers when measured against the size of Slovakia's army or economy.

The Slovak Republic has, however, made the following reservation concerning the second additional protocol The Slovak Republic avails itself of the right set out in Article 33 paragraph 2 of the second additional protocol not to accept Articles 16, 17, 19 and 20 of the Protocol in their entirety.

The Slovak Republic is in favour of the Council being composed of a small number of members in order to give it the necessary flexibility in responding to emerging problems.

In order to bring terrorists and their supporters to justice, the Slovak Republic adopted several measures with a view to the protection of targets that are vulnerable to terrorist attacks.

The President On behalf of the General Assembly, I wish to thank the President of the Slovak Republic for the statement he has just made.

According to paragraph 3, the exchange of classified information between the Slovak Republic and a foreign party is conducted in conformity with the international treaty, which is binding on the Slovak Republic.

President Gašparović (spoke in Slovakian English text provided by the delegation) Sixty years is an important anniversary for a person or an organization.

Slovakia stated that the acceptable languages for receiving and producing written records in respect of requests for mutual legal assistance were Slovak, Czech, English and French.

Slovak autonomy was constrained the Communist Party of Slovakia (KSS) was reunited with the KSČ (Communist Party of Czechoslovakia), but retained its own identity.

The Slovak Republic fulfils all its counter terrorism and counter extremism obligations that arise from its membership in the EU and NATO.

The Slovak Republic takes part in the preparation of analyses of threats within the EU, in the drafting of common European legislation, and in the elaboration of other strategic documents.

The President On behalf of the General Assembly, I have the honour to welcome to the United Nations His Excellency Ivan Gašparovič, President of the Slovak Republic, and to invite him to address the Assembly.

Their goal was to win the Allies' support for the independence of Bohemia and Moravia from the Austrian Empire and of Slovak territories of the Kingdom of Hungary, which were then part of the Austro Hungarian Empire.

If elected to membership in that important body, the Slovak Republic will enter the Security Council at a dynamic moment characterized by a changing global environment and by the search for a new security consensus.

The anti Communist revolution started on November 16, 1989 in Bratislava, with a demonstration of Slovak university students for democracy, and continued with the well known similar demonstration of Czech students in Prague on November 17.

One sanctioned person was identified in 2004 on the basis of notifications from banks (the Slovak Republic possesses details concerning the name of the sanctioned person, balance of his SKK account and of his EUR account).

The term received its widest usage during a visit by U.S. President George W. Bush on February 24, 2005 to Bratislava, Slovak Republic for a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The Slovak Intelligence Service and the DFT, in addition to providing information to the statutory recipients in the Slovak Republic, regularly provide operational and analytical intelligence on terrorism and other related phenomena in the framework of international exchange of information.