[1] Both countries share common membership of the Council of Europe, European Court of Human Rights, the International Criminal Court, NATO, OECD, OSCE, and the World Trade Organization.

[2][3] The Slovak State sent Milan A. P. Harminc to London as its consul-general.

However, after the German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939 Harminc and the Slovak ambassador in Warsaw Ladislav Szathmáry protested against the Slovak participation in the assault and subordinated themselves to Edvard Beneš' Czechoslovak government-in-exile.

[6][7] The two countries signed a bilateral investment agreement on 10 July 1990.

The agreement entered force on 26 October 1990, but was later terminated on 1 July 2021.