 Between the EU-facilitated 5 August political agreement and the December breakthrough on a new SNSD-led government, on 27 Oct 2019, Lajčák invited both Milorad Dodik and Dragan Covic to Bratislava for “international mediation.” The meeting was criticized for not including the Bosniak side.“Lajcak lost the trust of Bosnian public with these biased moves and discredited himself,” underlined the then caretaker prime minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina Denis Zvizdic himself.In March 2020, following the 2020 Slovak parliamentary election, Lajčák lost his place as Foreign Minister.