BRATISLAVA, September 29. /TASS/. Slovakia does not want a new Iron Curtain in Europe, Slovak Foreign and European Affairs Minister Juraj Blanar said following talks with his German counterpart Johann Wadephul in Bratislava.

"We do not want another Iron Curtain to be erected between Europe and Russia. Russia is here to stay. We need to move toward peace talks and peace -- the sooner, the better," Blanar said in a video posted on the Slovak Foreign Ministry’s website.

"We believe that this conflict [in Ukraine] has no military solution. The fact that it has continued for four and a half years and the way we see the front line moving only confirm that we are right," the minister said. "We support all peace initiatives aimed at resolving it. At the same time, compliance with international law is a matter of principle for us."

Blanar also said that Bratislava and Berlin support the EU enlargement process through the admission of candidate countries, including Ukraine, to the bloc.