The article introduces the work of Slovenians serving as permanent representatives to the United Nations (UN). The main purpose of the article is to emphasise that Slovenian permanent ...representatives, whether they served as Yugoslav or Slovenian permanent representatives to the UN, had three characteristics. First, they were 'figures', meaning they had a solid political or diplomatic career before entering the UN system. Second, Slovenians in New York were committed to the UN and to multilateralism, understood as a precondition for symmetric relations and equality among states. As such, Slovenian permanent representatives in the UN were always taken into consideration when the debate was on human rights, legal issues, sovereign equality and the right of nations to independence and to their own development path. Due to all these characteristics, one can say that Slovenian permanent representatives to the UN significantly influenced the progressive development of the UN.
In Slovenian territory ideological configuration was developing and obtained its crucial points in the context of establishing modern politics, which corresponds with the emergence of capitalism. On ...the level of ideology, capitalism reflected itself mostly through the Reformation. Modern ideologies developed in the Enlightenment and obtained their clear form in the French Revolution. By the end of the 19th century, three main ideologies prevailed and were organised in three main parties: the conservative Catholic Slovenian People's Party, the socialist social democracy and the liberal (national) party. Yet the strongest impact on the Slovenian political arena came from the struggle for national autonomy and gaining political support to create the administrative framework for unifying the entire Slovenian nation. Compared to other European nations where the citizenry represented the major force in creating national independence, the Slovenian citizenry was too weak to put on the agenda for that. Because no political force among Slovenians was strong enough, political ideologies also became underdeveloped and were more subdivisions of corporatism: conservatism, liberalism, socialism and nationalism. Corporate nationalism was a common denominator of all three.
Ljubljana, 21 August (STA) - Slovene Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel has welcomed Serbia's decision to freeze the sale of property of Slovene companies in Serbia dating back to the break-up of the ...former Yugoslavia. The auctions were postponed following the revelation that the previous Serbian government had adopted amendments to legislation on property nationalized after the break-up of Yugoslavia that would make it impossible for Slovene companies to recover property nationalized after 1991. Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel addressed a letter to his Serbian counterpart Vuk Jeremic on Wednesday, voicing Slovenia's expectations that Serbia exempt Slovenian property from all further auctions and settle its legal status.
Commenting on the most important meetings and agreements with Croatian officials, Dimitrij Rupel recalled that at their joint meeting in Brijuni in 2005, the two governments signed an agreement on ...avoiding and preventing border incidents and that the document respected the situation which was in the border areas at the moment when the two countries gained independence from the former Socialist...
LJUBLJANA, July 2 (Hina) - Slovene Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel has said that during its presidency over the European Union in the first half of this year, Slovenia blocked the opening of two ...policy chapters within Croatia's EU accession negotiations, and said that the reason why some other chapters were not open lay...
Dimitrij Rupel labelled bilateral relations as excellent, adding that boosting economic cooperation was in the interest of both countries. An additional opportunity to do so will come with Slovenia's ...participation at Expo 2010 in Shanghai, said Rupel.
Ljubljana, 4 June (STA) - Slovenian Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel has said talks at next week's EU-US summit would cover both non-problematic and open issues. The focus will be on the environment, ...visa policy and the Western Balkans, said Rupel and added that Slovenia was ready for the summit.
Stockholm, 29 May (STA) - Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel met in Stockholm on Thursday with his Iranian counterpart Manuchehr Motaki, with whom he discussed the situation in the region and Iran's ...role in it, the Foreign Ministry wrote in a press release.
Stockholm, 30 May (STA) - Kosovo topped the agenda as Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel met UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon at the review conference on Iraq held in Stockholm on Thursday.
Stockholm, 29 May: The Slovenian presidency of the EU welcomed on Thursday the Annual Review Conference of the International Compact with Iraq, which kicked off in Stockholm, Sweden. The presidency ...also expressed strong support for the Iraqi government and reiterated EU's commitment to contribute to the political and economic reconstruction of Iraq. He added that further improvements in the security situation in Iraq were vital for building a stable and prosperous state. The EU "condemns all acts of terrorism in all its forms in Iraq and calls for the immediate cessation of all such acts," and "supports the Iraqi government's increasing efforts in combating terrorism and sectarian violence and to disarm militia forces." The minister also said that the EU was ready to offer its expertise for the political process and economic reconstruction wherever the Iraqi government deemed this helpful. He added that the EU committed to provide further assistance to basic services and to strengthen Iraqi institutions and capacities to unlock Iraq's own resources.
