UAE's Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs, strongly condemned the attack on His Excellency Robert Fico, Prime Minister of Slovakia, noting that he was deeply saddened to hear of this heinous crime.
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said that he was "shocked" to hear that Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico was injured in a shooting incident on Wednesday.
Four-time Prime Minister of Slovakia, Robert Fico was wounded in a shooting after a government meeting in Handlova on Wednesday (local time) in Handlova, according to The Slovak Spectator.
Scholz's spokesman said the chancellor's planned face-to-face meetings today and tomorrow, including a scheduled meeting with Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico on Tuesday, had to be cancelled.
Robert Fico, a two-time former Slovakian PM now has a chance to regain the job. However, he must first seek coalition partners as his party did not get enough share of the vote to win outright.