[1] Since then, Slovakia has maintained a relatively close relationship with Vietnam, even after the collapse of Soviet Union at 1990s.

Trịnh Xuân Thanh, a former communist party member and businessman who was accused of being corrupt, was secretly abducted and kidnapped in Berlin by a group of unnamed Vietnamese personnel believed to be Vietnamese agents in Germany.

[4] In 2019, during a visit, Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany, retold the abduction to its Slovak counterpart, making it complicated.

[5] Despite sharing common Czechoslovak heritage and Vietnamese immigration, the Vietnamese community in Slovakia remains less relevant in comparison to its neighbor, Czech Republic.

Like most of Vietnamese people in Eastern Europe, they are perceived as well-integrated in the Slovak society.