FILE PHOTO: Slovakia's Finance Minister Eduard Heger gives a statement next to Former Slovakia's Prime Minister Igor Matovic (not pictured) at the Presidential Palace in Bratislava, Slovakia, March 30, 2021. REUTERS/Radovan Stoklasa
BRATISLAVA (Reuters) -Slovakia's new prime minister sought to defuse a row with Russia over a COVID-19 vaccine shipment on Friday, saying it was in Slovakia's interest to secure the Russian Sputnik V vaccine after Moscow angrily accused it of contract violations.
Slovakia ordered 2 million doses of Sputnik V from Russia, of which 200,000 arrived on March 1. The deal caused an uproar, having been brokered by the then Prime Minister Igor Matovic without informing his coalition partners, who opposed using Sputnik V in Slovakia for lacking EU regulator approval.
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