Slovenia Ambassador Hands Credentials to UN Secretary General
Slovenia's incoming ambassador to the United Nations presented her credentials to Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in New York on Wednesday. The fourth Slovenian ambassador to the World Organisation, Sanja Stiglic is taking over as Slovenia is getting ready to assume the EU's rotating presidency at the beginning of 2008.
The EU presidency makes the biggest ever challenge for Slovenian diplomats, including those in New York. The amount of their work will increase substantially given the wide variety of issues the EU deals with.
For this reason, the Slovenian mission at the UN headquarters has taken on additional staff. While an average six diplomats have worked there so far, some 14 will be on hand for the tasks related to Slovenia's stint at the helm of the EU, plus at least as many interims and auxiliary staff. Moreover, the mission will temporarily move to a larger office until after the presidency.
Born in 1970, Stiglic is a career diplomat with a university degree in law. In 1995 she was appointed an attache to the Foreign Ministry's department for the neighbouring countries and to the Embassy in Zagreb.
She worked as an adviser to the Foreign Ministry between 1996 and 1997, and from 1997 to 2002 as a secretary at the mission to the UN.
Before leaving for New York, Stiglic headed the Foreign Ministry's department for relations with the countries of North, West and Central Europe.
Stiglic has succeeded the third Slovenian ambassador to the UN, Roman Kirn. Previously, the office was held by Ernest Petric and Danilo Tuerk, while Ignac Golob was Slovenia's first unofficial representative at the World Organisation.
The country was a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council in 1998 and 1999, a stint that it intends to apply for again for the 2012-2013 period.
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