The cabinet adopted the revised version of the bill on international cooperation at Thursday's session.
The bill defines international development cooperation as well as its goals, planning, financing and implementation.
It calls for strengthening bilateral and multilateral cooperation and includes other specific goals, in line with Slovenia's interests.
The legislation will also allow the government to task qualified public or private institutions with carrying out the technical and operational part of such cooperation. It moreover defines the conditions under which companies can get involved in international development. The bill will allow Slovenia to carry out its role in the international community as a donor and enable the country to fulfil its obligation, given at the last year's European Council summit, to earmark at least 0.17% of its GDP for such projects by 2010.
Slovenia is already active in such projects, especially with the Western Balkan countries. It is spending over 0.1% of the GDP for international cooperation.
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