 Slovak information service was established on February 15, 1993 as a descendant of the "Federálna bezpečnostná informačná služba" FBIS (the domestic intelligence agency of Czechoslovakia), but unlike it predecessor it is also charged with foreign intelligence.Separate foreign intelligence agency as a descendant to czechoslovak "Office for Foreign Relations and Information of the Federal Ministry of the Interior" was not created in Slovakia.Its first director was Vladimír Mitro, who two years later asked the President of Slovakia to accept his resignation.