Appearing on TV JOJ's weekly politics talkshow 'De Facto' on Tuesday night, Slovak Deputy Premier for European Affairs Dusan Caplovic, commenting on Kosovo's decision to declare independence from Serbia on Sunday, called the breakaway province "Drogovo" ("The Drug State").

"That's my opinion. Everybody knows what's going on there. We know very well where drugs, white meat and guns flow through in order to get into Europe," said Caplovic, stressing that he will never vote in favour of Kosovo's independence.

Christian Democrat (KDH) chairman Pavol Hrusovsky, who was also appearing on the show, said that we are now witnessing something that we've never seen before: "That all the powerful people from individual countries, knowing that the essential principles of international law have been broken and that a new state has been born within another state without the latter's approval, are recognising this with such ease."

(TV JOJ)

Illustration photo: Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of the Slovak Republic for Knowledge-Based Society, European Affairs, Human Rights and Minorities Dušan Čaplovič at the press conference, August 7, 2007. (TASR - Štefan Puškáš)

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