Schedule of Events from 13 to 18 December

Schedule of Events from 13 to 18 December

TUESDAY, 13 December
BRUSSELS, Belgium - The EU Competition Council is to hold an extraordinary session to discuss an EU draft directive on the registration and authorisation of chemical substances (REACH). Slovenian delegation to take part.
HONG KONG, China - A six-day WTO ministerial conference is to get underway, to be attended also by Economics Minister Andrej Vizjak.
LJUBLJANA - The parliamentary foreign policy committee is to hold a session.
LJUBLJANA - The gallery Equrna is to host an exhibition of works by Austrian Carinthian painter Valentin Oman. The show, which marks the artist's 70th birthday, is to be opened by Austrian Ambassador to Slovenia Valentin Inzko.
LJUBLJANA - The second edition of Animateka festival of animated film is to get underway, through 17 December.

WEDNESDAY, 14 December
LJUBLJANA - President Janez Drnovsek is to host a forum on Slovenia's future with a focus on dialogue and relations between the state and religious communities.
LJUBLJANA - The parliament is to start its regular December session. One of the items on the agenda is the appointment of Joze P. Damijan a minister without portfolio in charge of reforms (through 20 December).
LJUBLJANA - The government is to convene for its regular weekly session.
LJUBLJANA - The parliament's foreign policy committee and EU affairs committee are to hold a session.

THURSDAY, 15 December
BRUSSELS, Belgium - Gathering for an EU summit, EU heads of state, including PM Janez Jansa, are to try and reach an agreement on the EU 2007-2013 spending plan. Jansa, who will be accompanied by FM Dimitrij Rupel and European Affairs State Secretary Marcel Koprol, is to attend a meeting of the European People's Party.
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina - Defence Minister Karl Erjavec and Slovenia's Chief-of-Staff, Major General Ladislav Lipic, are to visit Slovenian soldiers serving in a mission in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
LJUBLJANA - The management board of the Chamber of Commerce (GZS) is to discuss the current situation at the GZS, as well as plans for 2006.
KOCEVJE - A ceremony is to mark 15 years since a special military unit was formed in Kocevska Reka in order to protect Slovenia during its independence process.

FRIDAY, 16 December
BRUSSELS, Belgium - EU heads of states, among them PM Janez Jansa, are to conclude the two-day EU summit, the goal of which is to reach an agreement on the next EU spending plan.
LJUBLJANA - The Slovenian Writers' Association is to confer the 20th Jenko Award for the best collection of poems in the past two years.

SATURDAY, 17 December
KOCEVSKA REKA - A ceremony is to mark 15 years since a special military unit was formed to protect Slovenia during the process of independence. The participants are to be addressed by Defence Minister Karl Erjavec, with Alojz Peterle, the head of the first democratically elected Slovenian government, the keynote speaker.

SUNDAY, 18 December
SKOFJA LOKA - Sever Awards are to be conferred by the Stane Sever Fund on outstanding actors.

Schedule of Events from 13 to 18 December

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