Slovenia News 6 June 2006

In a week of international events involving Slovenia, the spotlight was on the three-day official visit to Russia by Prime Minister Janez Jansa and a strong team of ministers and businessmen as well as on talks by President Janez Drnovsek and representatives of a rebel group from the Sudanese region of Darfur. Slovenia moreover assumed chairmanship over the Human Security Network, an informal group of states for promoting human rights. Prime Minister Jansa and Putin expressed their pleasure over the economic cooperation between the two countries and called for Russian investments into Slovenian economy. Jansa also met his counterpart Mikhail Fradkov, with whom he agreed that Russia would pay its US$ 129m clearing debt in the next five years. The 18th anniversary of a historic incident for Slovenia was marked on Thursday with a meeting of the three journalists and a non-commissioned officer, among them PM Janez Jansa, who were tried before a military court for exposing secret orders of the Yugoslav People's Army (JLA). More » More than 160 events across Slovenia are to mark 15 years of the country's independence. The central ceremony is to be held in Ljubljana on 24 June, on the eve of National Day. More » Spearheading a strong government and business delegation, Prime Minister Janez Jansa began a three-day official visit to the Russian Federation on 29 May, meeting numerous high-ranking Russian officials, including President Vladimir Putin. More » President Janez Drnovsek failed to convince the Darfur rebel group Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) to sign up to the Darfur peace accord during the 30 and 31 May talks in Ljubljana. More » Slovenia began its one year stint as president of the Human Security Network (HSN) on Friday, as the network's two-day ministerial meeting came to a close in Bangkok, the capital city of the HSN's previous chair, Thailand. More » The Slovenian Foreign Ministry on Sunday congratulated the Montenegrin authorities upon Saturday's declaration of Montenegrin independence. More » President Janez Drnovsek presented former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl with a Slovenian Order of Merit, which was handed to Kohl by Slovenian MEP Alojz Peterle in Berlin on Friday. More » Representatives of green parties from Slovenia, Austria, Italy and Croatia signed a declaration establishing the Green Forum Alpe Adria on Thursday, with the aim to improve environmental protection, strengthen the greens' voice in the European Parliament, and promote a Europe of regions and good neighbourly relations. More » Logistics company Intereuropa is planning to build a logistics centre near the Russian capital of Moscow and the company's CEO Andrej Lovsin was looking at suitable locations for the EUR 8m to 10m investment on Monday, Intereuropa said on Tuesday. More » The Slovenian Export Corporation (SID) and Russia's biggest bank Sberbank have signed an agreement on cooperation aimed at facilitating trade between Slovenia and Russia, SID said on Monday. More » The latest edition of the Economic Mirror, published by the Institute of Macroeconomic Analysis and Development (IMAD), recorded an increase in the annual inflation rate (3.2%; May), exports (18.7%) and imports (18.1%) in Q1. More » The government has adopted a model of reform for the EU's common agricultural policy in Slovenia in the 2007-2013 period, opting for a regional payments scheme with production-tied subsidies. More » EU justice and interior ministers reached agreement on Thursday on an EU-wide evidence warrant which is expected to simplify and speed up the sharing of evidence such as documents and data in cases of cross-border crime. More » As part of a campaign on the introduction of the euro in Slovenia, the Government PR and Media Office and the Bank of Slovenia have prepared a special publication which will be sent to households across Slovenia in the coming days. More » The government gave the green light to the Motorway Company (DARS) for taking out a EUR 300m loan with the European Investment Bank (EIB), as it held a correspondence session on Friday. More » The Druga godba world music festival opened in Ljubljana on Tuesday on an Asian note, with the Slovenian-Indian project Sagar and the 15-member Indonesian group Sambasunda performing at the Cankarjev dom arts and convention centre. More » "The Slovenian PEN Centre is held in high esteem within International PEN, as we are extremely active given the small size of the Slovenian centre and of our language area," Slovenian PEN president Tone Persak has said. More » An exhibition of costume designer Alan Hranitelj's creations will be on view at the International Centre of Graphic Arts (MGLC) between 1 June and 10 September. The exhibition presents 150 theatre, opera and film costumes, festive outfits and fashion accessories. More » Slovenia is celebrating 15 years of its independence this year. On 25 June 1991 the then Slovenian National Assembly put into force the decision made in an independence referendum in December 1990 prompting a violent response by the Yugoslav People's Army (JLA). More » Cardinal Franc Rode criticised cultural relativism as he delivered a sermon during a Mass he celebrated together with several church dignitaries at St. Nicholas Cathedral in Ljubljana on Sunday afternoon. This was the last stop on his two-day visit to Slovenia. More » A banner with the word "Change" was placed on top of a monument in Preseren Square in Ljubljana's city centre, marking the launch of the European Commission's environmental campaign on raising the public's awareness about climate changes. More » The 80,000-strong Slovenian community in Cleveland, Ohio, the largest in any city outside of Slovenia, will begin its month-long celebrations marking 15 years of Slovenian statehood on Monday. More » Changes to the law on smoking which aim to ensure the complete protection of all people in public and working environments from the dangers of passive smoking were announced by Health Minister Andrej Brucan at a press conference on Wednesday on World No Tobacco Day. More » The European Union retained its October 2007 deadline for the expansion of the Schengen border agreement, despite a possible 10 to 15 week delay in implementing the Schengen Information System (SIS II), Interior Minister Dragutin Mate has said. More » Schedule of Events from 6 to 11 June More »

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