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| Identifier | Subject | Date | Office | Classification | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04LJUBLJANA1053 |
SLOVENIA: COM'S COURTESY CALL ON HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On November 16, COM, accompanied by the Embassy's PD/Human Rights Officer, paid a call on Slovenia's Ombudsman for Human Rights, Matjaz Hanzek. Hanzek expressed concern with some of the positions and public statements made by members of the rightist and center-right parties af [...] |
2004-11-19 03:39:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PINR SI |
| 04LJUBLJANA1061 |
COM MEETS BANK OF SLOVENIA GOVERNOR [...] (U) SUMMARY: Ambassador paid a courtesy call on Bank of Slovenia's (BOS) Governor Mitja Gaspari on 17 November. Gaspari, BOS Governor since 2001 and a former Minister of Finance, highlighted the stable macroeconomic position of Slovenia and was optimistic about the planned introduction of the [...] |
2004-11-22 02:52:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD ELAB PGOV PINR SI |
| 04LJUBLJANA1069 |
JANSA SENT THE LIST OF CABINET CANDIDATES [...] (U) SUMMARY: On Wednesday afternoon, November 24, after the signing of a coalition agreement by all four presidents of the coalition parties, Prime Minister Janez Jansa sent a list of 16 proposed ministerial candidates to the National Assembly for approval. The National Assembly has seven da [...] |
2004-11-26 10:21:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR ECON SI |
| 04LJUBLJANA1071 |
JANSA SELECTS HIS CABINET [...] (U) SUMMARY: On Wednesday afternoon, November 24, after the signing of a coalition agreement by all four presidents of the coalition parties, Prime Minister Janez Jansa sent a list of 16 proposed ministerial candidates to the National Assembly for approval. The National Assembly has seven da [...] |
2004-11-29 02:50:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR ECON SI |
| 04LJUBLJANA1079 |
SLOVENIA ON OSCE ELECTION OBSERVERS FOR IRAQ [...] (SBU) Pol/Econ chief raised the points in reftel with Blanka Jamnisek of the OSCE task force. Though points had been provided in advance of the meeting, Jamnisek apologized for being unprepared to respond to the demarche. In addition to preparing for the OSCE ministerial this weekend, the Sl [...] |
2004-11-30 11:41:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV IZ SI |
| 04LJUBLJANA1080 |
SLOVENIA FIRM ON MAINTAINING ICTY CONDITIONALITY [...] (C) Pol/Econ Chief delivered reftel points to the Head of the Western Balkans Department at the MFA, Peter Reberc. Reberc is recently returned from eight years in Rome first at the Slovene Mission to the Holy See and then the bilateral Mission. He explained that the Government of Slovenia is [...] |
2004-11-30 11:46:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | KAWC PREL PGOV ICTY |
| 04LJUBLJANA1081 |
SLOVENIA ON REPEAL OF FSC/ETI [...] (U) On 30 November Pol/Econ chief met with Dimitrij Grcar, State Undersecretary for Multilateral Affairs at the Ministry of Economy to present reftel points on repeal of FSC/ETI. Grcar knows the case well and explained that Slovenia considers it resolved. He was not aware of the latest Euro [...] |
2004-12-01 03:15:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ETRD SI USTR |
| 04LJUBLJANA1088 |
EXBS: SLOVENIA AND CROATIA PROGRAM ADVISOR MONTHLY [...] SUMMARY: Passports were received from Slovenia and visas granted for the Washington Department of Commerce (DOC) workshop in December. Three members of the Slovenian Government and three from Croatia attended the London Export Conference. The University of Georgia (UGA) conducted a Slovenia [...] |
2004-12-03 12:22:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP HR SI |
| 04LJUBLJANA1089 |
SLOVENIA: NEW GOS CABINET CONFIRMED BY PARLIAMENT [...] (U) SUMMARY: In a 51:37 public vote on 03 December, the National Assembly confirmed the proposed cabinet of PM Janez Jansa. MPs from Jansa's four-party coalition plus the two national minority representatives supported the slate of 15 candidates. END SUMMARY. 2. (U) Exactly two months [...] |
2004-12-06 06:29:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR SI OSCE |
| 04LJUBLJANA1090 |
AMBASSADOR CALLS ON NEW (AGAIN) SLOVENE FOREIGN [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador met with Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel on Dec. 4 prior to the minister's departure for the OSCE Ministerial in Sofia. Rupel appeared relaxed and very comfortable in his surroundings, which he had vacated less than six months ago. Rupel said he was looking forward [...] |
2004-12-06 08:57:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SI OSCE |
| 04LJUBLJANA1092 |
SLOVENE BIOMETRIC PASSPORT UPDATE [...] (U) SUMMARY: Slovenia will begin issuing a first-phase biometric passport containing photo recognition data before October 26, 2005. A second-phase biometric passport incorporating both photo recognition and fingerprints will be introduced at a later date, in compliance with new EU requirement [...] |
2004-12-07 08:02:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | CMGT PREL KPAO SI |
| 04LJUBLJANA1104 |
HARDWARE ACCEPTANCE CABLE FOR CONSULAR EQUIPMENT [...] ORDER NUMBER 38851 HAS BEEN INVENTORIED BY POST. THE SHIPMENT IS ACCEPTED. 2. POST APPRECIATES DEPARTMENT'S ATTENTION TO THIS ISSUE. NNNN [...] |
2004-12-10 09:41:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | KCSY CMGT AMGT AADP |
| 04LJUBLJANA1107 |
SLOVENIA: FOMIN RUPEL AND USOSCE AMB MINIKES [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a 10 December meeting with COM and USOSCE Ambassador Stephan Minikes, FoMin Rupel set out Slovenian priorities for its OSCE CiO year, indicating a special interest in dealing with issues in Southeastern Europe. Discussion focused on Ukraine and on the need to engage the Russ [...] |
2004-12-14 07:27:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR SI OSCE RU |
| 04LJUBLJANA1109 |
RETURN OF OLD EMERGENCY NETWORK (ENET) [...] Per Ref instructions post is returning two 6300T notebook computers. Shipping details are provided below. A) Date of Shipment: December 15, 2004 B) ADM Numbers: 702851, 702699 C) Pouch Registration Number: 5248976 2. Point of contact is IMO [...] |
2004-12-14 10:20:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AADP ANET KCOG KRIM |
| 04LJUBLJANA1111 |
SLOVENIA: COM MEETS NEW JUSTICE MINISTER LOVRO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On 13 December, COM called on newly confirmed Justice Minister Lovro Sturm and raised denationalization of AmCit-held property, court backlogs, the pending Slovenian request for the return of alleged financial criminal Davorin Sadar, and the need to negotiate a mutual legal as [...] |
2004-12-14 11:15:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR SI |
| 04LJUBLJANA1119 |
COM CALL ON NEW SLOVENE FINANCE MINISTER, ANDREJ [...] (SBU) Summary. Ambassador paid a courtesy call on newly confirmed Finance Minister, Andrej Bajuk, on December 13. Accompanying the Ambassador were DCM and Pol/Econ chief. Bajuk, interestingly, held the meeting with no staff present. Throughout the discussion, Bajuk stressed the need for the [...] |
2004-12-16 10:41:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PREL SI |
| 04LJUBLJANA1121 |
OPERATION BALKAN VICE V: SLOVENIA [...] (S) Pol-Miloff delivered reftel talking points and list to MFA International Security Department staffers Bostjan Jerman and Maja Zuzek on 17 December. Jerman and Zuzek received the information gratefully and said they would pass it on directly to representatives at the Bank of Slovenia, Off [...] |
2004-12-17 09:57:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | SECRET | KAWC PREL MOPS EFIN ETTC SI ICTY |
| 04LJUBLJANA1125 |
INVITATION TO MINE ACTION CONFERENCE; LJUBLJANA, [...] (U) INVITATION: PM/WRA and Embassy Ljubljana would like to announce an upcoming Regional Mine Action Coordination (RMAC) Conference, scheduled to take place in Ljubljana on 13-14 January 2005. PM/WRA Senior Program Coordinator and Program Manager for Demining in the Balkans Murphey McCloy w [...] |
2004-12-17 11:25:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PARM KHDP SI |
| 04LJUBLJANA1128 |
SLOVENIA ON YUKOS AUCTION [...] (C) Pol/econ chief delivered reftel points to Angelina Trajkovski of the MFA's Office for Eastern Europe on December 20. Trajkovski explained that no official reaction at the minister level had been developed, but that this was clearly a step backward for Russia and of concern to Slovenia. [...] |
2004-12-20 11:12:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ECON KPAO PREL PHUM RS SI |
| 04LJUBLJANA1129 |
SLOVENIA ON ITER [...] EconOff delivered reftel talking points to Dr. Milos Komac, State Undersecretary in the Scientific Office at the Ministry of Higher Education and Science. Komac is Post's chief contact on issues related to ITER. Komac mentioned during the demarche that Slovenia is very interested in particip [...] |
2004-12-21 09:00:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL TRGY |
| 04LJUBLJANA1134 |
SLOVENIA: COM MEETS NEW DEFENSE MINISTER ERJAVEC [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a 22 December courtesy call by COM, new DefMin Karl Erjavec called for intensifying cooperation between the U.S. and Slovenia, particularly in the field of training. Erjavec confirmed that the GoS remained focused on its commitment to spend two percent of GDP on defense by [...] |
2004-12-23 06:28:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PINR SI NATO |
| 04LJUBLJANA1136 |
SLOVENIA: LIBERAL DEMOCRATS HAVE HEADS IN THE SAND [...] (C) After leading Slovene governments for 12 years, the Liberal Democracy Party (LDS) became over-confident, assuming, perhaps, that inertia would sweep it back into office last October 3. Accusations of arrogance have been heaped upon the party, even from within, and it is widely agreed that [...] |
2004-12-27 02:03:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SI |
| 04LJUBLJANA1138 |
HARDWARE ACCEPTANCE CABLE CONSULAR EQUIPMENT: PROFILE 5 [...] ORDER NUMBER 38961 HAS BEEN INVENTORIED BY POST. THE SHIPMENT IS ACCEPTED. 2. POST APPRECIATES DEPARTMENT'S ATTENTION TO THIS ISSUE. NNNN [...] |
2004-12-28 06:27:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | KCSY CMGT AMGT AADP |
| 04LJUBLJANA1139 |
HARDWARE ACCEPTANCE CABLE CONSULAR EQUIPMENT: MONITORS [...] ORDER NUMBER 38885 HAS BEEN INVENTORIED BY POST. THE SHIPMENT IS ACCEPTED. 2. POST APPRECIATES DEPARTMENT'S ATTENTION TO THIS ISSUE. NNNN [...] |
2004-12-28 06:27:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | KCSY CMGT AMGT AADP |
| 04LJUBLJANA265 |
HEALTH, INTERIOR MINISTERS SURVIVE INTERPELLATION, [...] (U) SUMMARY: Opposition-launched motions for the removal of Health Minister Dusan Keber and Interior Minister Rado Bohinc were debated by the National Assembly on 29 March and 30 March, respectively. Keber retained his position by a 47- 28 vote, along party lines. Bohinc survived by a 46-30 [...] |
2004-03-31 12:12:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR SI |
| 04LJUBLJANA266 |
SLOVENIA: "FORMER SOVIET BLOC" RHETORIC ILL- [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Slovenian media have reported extensively on erroneous references to Slovenia as part of the "former Soviet Bloc" made during recent NATO accession ceremonies. Slovenes take umbrage at this historical inaccuracy and the lack of understanding it demonstrates as to how forme [...] |
2004-04-01 05:38:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR PGOV KMDR SI NATO |
| 04LJUBLJANA283 |
SLS TO PULL MINISTERS AND LEAVE COALITION [...] (U) IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING AN 05 APRIL MEETING OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE PEOPLES PARTY (SLS), SLS PRESIDENT JANEZ PODOBNIK ANNOUNCED THAT THE THREE SLS MINISTERS (JUSTICE MINISTER IVAN BIZJAK, TRANSPORT MINISTER JAKOB PRESECNIK, AND AGRICULTURE MINISTER FRANC BUT) WOULD BE OFFERING THE [...] |
2004-04-06 12:51:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR SI EUN |
| 04LJUBLJANA324 |
SLOVENIA: FOMIN TO ATTEND BERLIN ANTI-SEMITISM [...] (U) POL/ECON CHIEF AND POL-MILOFF DELIVERED REFTEL TALKING POINTS AND DELEGATION LIST ON 15 APRIL TO MFA OSCE TASK FORCE MEMBERS URSKA AJDISEK AND KATARINA GRADIC, BOTH OF WHOM WORK ON HUMAN DIMENSION ISSUES. AJDISEK SAID THAT FOMIN DMITRIJ RUPEL AND AT LEAST TWO OF HIS KEY STAFFERS, INCLUDIN [...] |
2004-04-15 12:22:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL SOCI SI OSCE |
| 04LJUBLJANA333 |
RUPEL WALKING ON THIN ICE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: FM Rupel sent a public letter to National Assembly members on 13 April openly opposing the nomination of State Prosecutor General Zdenka Cerar to replace Ivan Bizjak as Justice Minister. The letter also pointedly criticizes the governing coalition for abusing its strong parli [...] |
2004-04-16 09:50:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR ECON SI |
| 04LJUBLJANA349 |
SLOVENIA: CABINET RESHUFFLE LEADS TO NEW [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On 20 April, five new ministers were sworn in as "caretakers" for the remainder of the year. The new ministers include three professors: Matek Lahovnik, Minister of Economy, Marko Pavliha, Minister of Transport, and Milan Pogancnik, Minister of Agriculture, and two technocrat [...] |
2004-04-20 13:16:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR PGOV PINR SI |
| 04LJUBLJANA377 |
SLOVENIA: TERRORISM FINANCE: PREVENTING KONGRA-GEL [...] (C) ON 23 APRIL, ECONOFF DELIVERED REFTEL POINTS TO PETER JAPELJ, FIRST COUNSELOR IN THE MFA OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL SECURITY AND DISARMAMENT. JAPELJ PROMISED TO SHARE THE INFORMATION WITH MFA STATE UNDERSECRETARY FOR VISA POLICY ANDREJ STER. HE WILL ALSO DISSEMINATE THE INFORMATION AMONG TH [...] |
2004-04-26 12:43:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS PREL PTER IZ TU SY JO SI |
| 04LJUBLJANA381 |
SLOVENIA: COM PRESSES HEALTHMIN FOR TRANSPARENCY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a 16 April meeting, Minister of Health, Dusan Keber, assured COM that a public tender competition to equip a Slovenian medical facility with high- tech scanning equipment will be fair and transparent. Keber noted that Meditrade (General Electric's distributor in Slovenia an [...] |
2004-04-28 13:30:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BEXP ELAB ETRD PHUM SENV AMGT SI |
| 04LJUBLJANA429 |
SLOVENIA: ARTICLE 98 FOLLOW-UP [...] (U) DCM, ACCOMPANIED BY POL-MILOFF AND ODC CHIEF, DELIVERED REFTEL TALKING POINTS TO MFA STATE SECRETARY FOR MULTILATERAL AFFAIRS SAMUEL ZBOGAR ON 10 MAY. ZBOGAR, ACCOMPANIED BY STAFF ASSISTANT MATEJ MARN AND NORTH AMERICA DESK OFFICER GREGOR KOZOVINC, WAS GRATEFUL TO HEAR THAT IMET FUNDS WO [...] |
2004-05-10 12:23:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MASS MARR PREL SI |
| 04LJUBLJANA433 |
SLOVENIA: COM CALLS ON NEW MINISTER OF [...] (U) SUMMARY. In a 04 May meeting, new Minister of Agriculture, Milan Pogacnik, told COM that Slovenia is "prepared" to adopt EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) guidelines, though not without some adjustment pains. Pogacnik also expressed a strong desire to work with the Mission in matters o [...] |
2004-05-10 13:46:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON ETRD PINR SI |
| 04LJUBLJANA438 |
SLOVENIA: SAVA RIVER BASIN INITIATIVE [...] (U) This cable responds to reftel request for information on the status of Slovenia's commitment to the establishment of a Permanent Sava River Basin Commission, the implementation of its mandate, and official representation. On 05 May, MFA State Undersecretary and Stability Pact National Co [...] |
2004-05-11 13:02:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EAID ECIN EWWT PREL SI |
| 04LJUBLJANA453 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR FREDERICK GREEN [...] EMBASSY LJUBLJANA WELCOMES THE VISIT OF AND GRANTS COUNTRY CLEARANCE TO MICROBIOLOGIST, FREDERICK GREEN III, TO TRAVEL TO LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA ON JUNE 04 - 14, 2004, TO PRESENT PAPER AT THE WOOD PRESERVATION INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH GROUP ANNUAL MEETING. 2. THE CONTROL OFFICER FOR YOUR VISIT [...] |
2004-05-14 08:59:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR SI |
| 04LJUBLJANA499 |
PUBLIC AFFAIRS INFLUENCE ANALYSIS: SLOVENIA [...] (SBU) Summary. Slovenia has a very open information environment in which there is little, if any, overt censorship. The media are critical and react strongly against any perceived attempts to influence the tenor of their reporting. Nevertheless, they often fall short of journalistic standa [...] |
2004-05-28 10:23:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPAO OIIP SI |
| 04LJUBLJANA501 |
SLOVENIA: COM CALLS ON NEW ECONMIN [...] (U) SUMMARY: In a 26 May meeting, new Slovene Minister of Economy, Matej Lahovnik, told COM that the Ministry would like to make Slovenia even more "internationalized." He advocated a gradual approach to investments and to privatization, a process he said should be of equal access to both do [...] |
2004-05-28 11:58:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD PGOV PINR SI |
| 04LJUBLJANA511 |
SLOVENIA: SECRETARY MINETA'S BILATERAL MEETING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On 25 May, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta and his visiting delegation called on his Slovenian counterpart, Marko Pavliha, to discuss the bilateral transportation agenda prior to the start of the European Conference of Ministers of Transport (ECMT) meeting held i [...] |
2004-06-02 11:24:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EWWT EAIR ELTN ECON PREL PINR SI |
| 04LJUBLJANA532 |
SLOVENIA: EB/CBA MERMOUD RAISES THE STAKES ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During his 28 May visit to Slovenia, Department of State Special Representative for Commercial and Business Affairs Frank Mermoud encouraged senior GoS officials, including the Minister of Information Society Pavel Gantar and State Secretary Matjaz Logar of the Ministry of th [...] |
2004-06-07 13:30:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BEXP ELAB ETRD PHUM SENV AMGT SI |
| 04LJUBLJANA554 |
SLOVENIA: RESPONSE TO US-EU FIRST STEP CIVAIR [...] (U) ON 15 JUNE, STATE SECRETARY FOR CIVIL AFFAIRS AT THE MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT BOJAN BABIC EMAILED ECONOFF THE FOLLOWING NOTE PROVIDING SLOVENIA'S VIEWS ON THE U.S.-EU FIRST STEP CIVAIR AGREEMENT AS PER REF A. BEGIN TEXT OF NOTE THANK YOU FOR YOUR FAX MESSAGE REGARDING AMERICAN VIEWPOINT [...] |
2004-06-15 12:34:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR SI |
| 04LJUBLJANA576 |
SLOVENIAN OPPOSITION FORMS NEW POLITICAL "FORUM", [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Hailed as a "brilliant political move" by some pundits, and criticized by ruling LDS party members for putting personal gain ahead of the national interest, FoMin Rupel joined many of his former DEMOS associates in establishing a new forum dubbed the "Assembly for the Republic ( [...] |
2004-06-18 12:35:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR SI |
| 04LJUBLJANA59 |
SLOVENIA: ZOELLICK'S LETTER: "CONSTRUCTIVE AND [...] (SBU) On 20 January, Econoff and Econ Specialist followed up an earlier conversation with Dmirtij Grcar, State Undersecretary for Multilateral Affairs at the Ministry of the Economy, examining Ambassador Zoellick's letter to his ministerial counterparts (ref A). Reaching into his drawer and p [...] |
2004-01-26 13:30:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD SI WTO |
| 04LJUBLJANA599 |
SLOVENIA: CENTER-RIGHT OPPOSTION PARTIES FORM NEW [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Assembly for the Republic (AFTR) held an inaugural public meeting on 23 June reuniting DEMOS members, drawing like-minded academics, and gathering considerable media attention (ref A). The AFTR continued to press its message for inclusion and national renovation in an atte [...] |
2004-06-28 08:32:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR SI |
| 04LJUBLJANA61 |
SLOVENIA: PRM A/S DEWEY'S LETTER TO UNHCR DONORS [...] (U) ON 23 JANUARY, ECONOFF DELIVERED PRM A/S DEWEY'S LETTER TO DONORS WHO PLEDGED CONTRIBUTIONS TO UNHCR'S 2004 PROGRAM TO MARJAN SETINC, MFA STATE UNDERSECRETARY FOR DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION AND HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE. SETINC WELCOMED THE A/S'S LETTER AND NOTED THAT THE UNHCR WILL REMAIN ON [...] |
2004-01-26 13:36:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV SI UNHCR |
| 04LJUBLJANA636 |
SLOVENIA: RESIGNATIONS AND REALIGNMENTS IN NATIONAL [...] (U) SUMMARY: OVER THE COURSE OF THE LAST WEEK, THE SLOVENIAN NATIONAL ASSEMBLY HAS SEEN A NUMBER OF CHANGES. THE FORMER FOMIN DIMITRIJ RUPEL, WHO WAS DISMISSED ON 05 JULY (REFS A, B, C AND E), HAS ALIGNED HIMSELF WITH THE OPPOSITION DEPUTY GROUP SLOVENIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY (SDS), WHICH HAS NOM [...] |
2004-07-09 07:25:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR SI |
| 04LJUBLJANA646 |
SLOVENIA: NEW CENTER FOR EU INTEGRATION ANNOUNCED [...] (U) SUMMARY: On 08 July, GOS announced its intention to create a new center to assist EU aspirants, in particular Western Balkan hopefuls. Although it is still in the early stages of development, the European Commission and the World Bank have already expressed an interest in the project. E [...] |
2004-07-09 13:11:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EU SI |
| 04LJUBLJANA653 |
SLOVENIA: NATIONAL ELECTIONS CALLED FOR 03 OCTOBER [...] (U) SUMMARY: Slovenian President Janez Drnovsek has called for National Assembly elections to be held on 03 October. Although the official electoral campaign starts on 03 September, the deadline for registering official candidate lists is 08 September. END SUMMARY CHOOSING THE DATE FOR TH [...] |
2004-07-13 03:39:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL SI |
| 04LJUBLJANA660 |
SLOVENIA: MOSQUE REFERENDUM DECLARED [...] (U) SUMMARY. In a 7-1 decision, the Slovenian Constitutional Court rejected a proposed referendum on the construction of a mosque in Ljubljana. The Court declared that the referendum violated the right to freedom of religion set out in Article 41 of the Slovenian Constitution. The Islamic [...] |
2004-07-13 12:43:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF SI |
| 04LJUBLJANA726 |
SLOVENIA: GoS APPROVES POTOCNIK'S EU COMMISSIONER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On 29 July, the GoS approved Janez Potocnik's nomination to serve as Slovenia's Commissioner in the EU. Potocnik has had great experience within the EU, having served as Slovenia's top accession negotiator and interim Commissioner. He is independent and can be considered a f [...] |
2004-07-30 10:35:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINR EU SI |
| 04LJUBLJANA773 |
SLOVENIA'S EC PORTFOLIO COMPLEMENTS NATIONAL [...] (U) By all accounts the European Commission Science and Research portfolio assigned to Slovene Commissioner Janez Potocnik is a positive development for Slovenia. Both the ruling coalition and opposition parties view this portfolio, as opposed to the EU Enlargement portfolio many expected for [...] |
2004-08-18 04:53:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL TSPL SI |
| 04LJUBLJANA818 |
SLOVENIA COM'S FAREWELL CALL ON MINISTER OF LABOR [...] (SBU) Summary. Ambassador paid a farewell call on Minister of Labor, Family and Social Affairs, Vlado Dimovski on August 30. Dimovski, who will not run for a seat in Parliament and does not plan to remain in government after elections, was openly critical of the last two years of leadership [...] |
2004-09-02 02:59:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ELAB PINR PGOV SI GTIP |
| 04LJUBLJANA823 |
TV SLOVENIJA AIRS FIRST UNOFFICIAL DEBATE BETWEEN [...] (U) SUMMARY: On 30 August, TV Slovenija broadcast a long- planned confrontation between PM Anton Rop and opposition leader and Slovene Democratic Party [SDS] President Janez Jansa. The two leaders introduced different "diagnoses" of Slovenia's success in the last four years. Jansa was very [...] |
2004-09-02 08:12:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR SI |
| 04LJUBLJANA830 |
BIAS IN SLOVENE OPINION POLLING: MORE ABOUT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. As in most countries, the results of public opinion polls in Slovenia are widely discussed among media, politicians, pundits and the public. However, few of these "consumers" are aware of the methodologies that are used or the ease with which polling data can be manipulated. [...] |
2004-09-03 04:00:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPAO PGOV PINR SI |
| 04LJUBLJANA85 |
SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF GEN JAMES L. JONES, SACEUR [...] (SBU) While you will be wearing your NATO hat during your 11-12 February visit to Slovenia, you may wish to emphasize the following shared U.S. and NATO priorities during your discussions with Slovenian officials: -- Slovenia's bilateral and NATO commitment to bring defense spending to 2% o [...] |
2004-01-13 10:00:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR PREL PGOV PINR SI NATO |
| 04LJUBLJANA854 |
COM'S FAREWELL CALL ON SLOVENIA'S PRIME MINISTER, [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador paid a final visit to Prime Minister Anton (Tone) Rop on September 9. It was a warm and cordial meeting and PM Rop appeared more relaxed and congenial than in previous meetings. Despite terming the elections too close to call, Rop exuded an air of confidence tha [...] |
2004-09-13 10:22:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR SI GTIP |
| 04LJUBLJANA884 |
SLOVENIA: ELECTIONEERING TACTICS CREATE [...] (U) Summary: Slovenia's newswires have been alight since the arrest and detention of Janez Podobnik, president of the right-leaning Slovene Peoples Party (SLS), and 11 other members of the party, by Croatian authorities in a disputed border region, 22 September. With elections in just over t [...] |
2004-09-23 12:29:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PBTS HR SI |
| 04LJUBLJANA92 |
SLOVENIA: IMO BALLAST WATER TREATY [...] (SBU) ON 04 FEBRUARY, ECON SPECIALIST FOLLOWED UP REF A INQUIRY WITH BRANKO MAHNE, STATE UNDERSECRETARY AT THE MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT, DETERMINING THE GOS POSITION ON REF B POINTS AND DRAFT PROPOSAL FOR A BALLAST WATER DISCHARGE STANDARD IN REGULATION D-2 OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION FOR THE [...] |
2004-02-06 13:06:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EWWT PHSA SENV SI IMO |
| 04LJUBLJANA976 |
SLOVENIA IN THE BIG LEAGUES NOW: DAS CONLEY HELPS [...] SUMMARY: (U) The visit of DAS Heather Conley to Ljubljana October 20-21 was well timed to take advantage of the momentum created by the arrival of a new U.S.ambassador. Her meetings at the MFA, MOD and with a small group of influential private citizens have helped us to galvanize and re-focu [...] |
2004-10-25 11:26:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR SI OSCE |
| 04LJUBLJANA981 |
SLOVENIAN MOD GIVES DAS CONLEY DEFENSE REFORM [...] (C) SUMMARY: DAS Heather Conley engaged high level MoD officials in a productive dialogue about the current status and future of Slovenian defense reforms during meetings on 21 October. Both State Secretary Milan Jazbec and State Undersecretary Uros Krek described the Slovenian commitment t [...] |
2004-10-26 11:26:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MCAP MOPS SI NATO |
| 05LJUBLJANA103 |
COM CALLS ON SLOVENIA'S MINISTER OF PUBLIC [...] Summary. On February 10, COM called on Dr. Gregor Virant, Minister of Slovenia's newly created Ministry of Public Administration. Virant described his ministry as a consolidation of human resources, information management and eGovernment initiatives into one, central, transparent, and servi [...] |
2005-02-15 09:36:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PINR SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA106 |
SLOVENIA APPROVES TRADE WITH GMOs; COM MEETS NEW [...] Summary: In a February 10 courtesy call by COM, new Minister of Agriculture, Forestry, and Food, Marija Lukacic, highlighted Slovenia's goals of promoting rural development and adopting legislation to improve the competitiveness of Slovene farmers. This would be accomplished by increasing th [...] |
2005-02-15 11:08:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD PINR SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA11 |
SLOVENIA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON NATO IN AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) MILITARY CONTRIBUTIONS: On 06 January, Pol-Miloff delivered reftel talking points to MFA Deputy Head of NATO Department Stanislav Vidovic. DATT and Pol-Miloff delivered reftel points to MoD Director for Defense Policy Uros Krek later the same day. Both Krek and Vidovic reiterated FoMin [...] |
2005-01-07 08:56:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR SI NATO |
| 05LJUBLJANA112 |
SLOVENIA ON FEBRUARY 21 GAERC [...] No summary [...] |
2005-02-17 12:12:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL IR UP MD SU CG SR BK SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA116 |
SLOVENIA PROVIDES DETAILS OF NEW BIOMETRIC PASSPORT [...] (U) The Government of Slovenia anticipates being able to begin issuing a new biometric passport by the October 26, 2005, deadline imposed by the Enhanced Border Security and Visa Entry Reform Act (EBSVERA). The new passport will incorporate a number of new classical security upgrades in additi [...] |
2005-02-18 06:12:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CMGT PREL KPAO SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA118 |
SLOVENIA: COM AND NEW LABOR MINISTER DISCUSS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a 16 February courtesy call, new Labor Minister Janez Drobnic told COM that combatting unemployment is his top priority, with a focus on introducing programs to help the disabled, the elderly, and first-time job-seekers. Drobnic also listed improving MoL's IT base as a key [...] |
2005-02-18 11:15:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ELAB PINR PHUM SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA126 |
SLOVENIA: MFA SHEDS LIGHT ON ISAF AND NTM-I [...] (C) SUMMARY: During an unrelated demarche on 22 February, DCM and Pol-Miloff pressed MFA Security Policy Department Head Borut Mahnic for more information about Slovenian decisions to send officers to an ISAF Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) and military trainers to a third country under [...] |
2005-02-24 06:39:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR SI NATO |
| 05LJUBLJANA127 |
SLOVENIA: 2005 SPECIAL 301 REVIEW - [...] SUMMARY. In light of significant progress Slovenia has made over the past year, Post recommends that Slovenia not be included on the Special 301 Watch List or Priority Watch list for 2005. Post has consulted with PhRMA members in Ljubljana and relevant government authorities on the PhRMA re [...] |
2005-02-24 07:18:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | KIPR ECON ETRD SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA136 |
SLOVENIA SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES REPORT, [...] SUMMARY. Slovenia's proposed changes to the Slovene translation of ACSA were forwarded to EUCOM/J4- ID. TAG from Colorado will visit Slovenia in March. 2. POLITICAL-MILITARY A. DEPLOYMENTS. The third rotation of Slovenian soldiers left Slovenia in February to participate in the int [...] |
2005-03-01 11:14:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA144 |
SLOVENIA LOOKS TO REJUVENATE ITS TRANSPORT [...] Summary: In a February 24 courtesy call, new Slovene Minister of Transport, Janez Bozic, highlighted for COM his goals for revitalizing Slovenia's transportation infrastructure in all four sectors of his portfolio: roads, railways, sea transport, and aviation. Railway development is Bozic's t [...] |
2005-03-03 04:00:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA149 |
SLOVENIA AID FOR IRAQ RECONSTRUCTION [...] On 3 March, Econoff delivered reftel talking points to Beti Likar, MFA Desk Officer for Iraq. According to Likar, to date Slovenia has disbursed USD 585,000 in bilateral grant assistance, above and beyond its Madrid pledge of USD 420,000. This aid has been in the form of police training, psy [...] |
2005-03-04 10:30:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON EFIN SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA15 |
SLOVENIA SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES REPORT, [...] SUMMARY. The new FMF Training case was signed in December and all documentation was completed in time to use the case to send nine students to training in January. The ACSA with Slovenia is not in force yet. 2. POLITICAL-MILITARY A. FMF/FMS BUDGET 1) ODC submitted the FY07-12 FMF [...] |
2005-01-07 10:48:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA151 |
SLOVENIA ON SYRIAN WITHDRAWAL [...] (C) On 7 March, DCM and Econoff delivered reftel talking points to Jasna Gersak, head of the MFA's division for Asian, African, Australian and Oceanian Affairs. Gersak is a close, high-ranking contact of Mission and until recently was DCM at the Slovenian Embassy in Washington. Stating that S [...] |
2005-03-07 11:04:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL LE SI SYSI |
| 05LJUBLJANA152 |
KOSOVO/WESTERN BALKANS, CROATIA'S EU ACCESSION, [...] (C) SUMMARY: EUR/NCE Director Janet Garvey held a series of meetings in Ljubljana 4 March with key Slovenian interlocuters. Issues raised included: -- Slovenia's interest in working toward a final agreement on Kosovo this year; -- the priority Slovenia places on its relationships with its [...] |
2005-03-08 04:12:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SI HR OSCE KO RU |
| 05LJUBLJANA157 |
SLOVENIA: INFO FOR REPORT ON EUROPEAN ASSISTANCE [...] (U) Pol-Miloff delivered reftel talking points and background information on 17 February to MFA Head of Department for North America and Latin America Vojislav Suc and U.S. Desk Officer Amela Kentric. Kentric replied on 8 March with the following information: Slovenia did not provide any bi [...] |
2005-03-10 06:25:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAID PREL SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA162 |
HARDWARE ACCEPTANCE CABLE FOR CONSULAR EQUIPMENT [...] SHIPMENT HAS BEEN ACCEPTED AND INVENTORIED BY POST. THE SHIPMENT WAS COMPLETE AND NO EQUIPMENT WAS DAMAGED. 2. POST HAS REMOVED THE MALFUNCTIONING EQUIPMENT FROM INVENTORY AND WILL DISPOSE OF IT AT POST IN ACCORDANCE WITH STATE 029919. 3. POST APPRECIATES DEPARTMENT'S ATTENTION TO THIS [...] |
2005-03-11 09:40:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | KCSY CMGT AMGT AADP |
| 05LJUBLJANA164 |
SLOVENIA: DELIVERY OF DEMARCHE ON GEORGIA'S [...] No summary [...] |
2005-03-11 10:17:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS ZJ RS GG SI OSCE EUN |
| 05LJUBLJANA170 |
SUPPORTING ISRAEL IN WIPO AND ILO: SLOVENIA [...] (SBU) Econoff delivered reftel talking points to Dr. Biserka Strel, Director of the Slovenian Intellectual Property Office at the Ministry of the Economy, and to Jana Lovsin, Head of the Department for International Cooperation and European Affairs at the Ministry of Labor, Family and Social A [...] |
2005-03-15 11:32:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR AORC ELAB IS SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA178 |
SLOVENIA LIKELY TO CO-SPONSOR CUBA CHR RESOLUTION [...] (SBU) Pol/Econ chief met with Jasna Lhotka of the MFA's Office of UN affairs on March 17, 2005 to discuss reftel. Slovenia co-sponosored last year's Cuba resolution. Lhotka said that, barring any unforseen obstacles, Slovenia was likely to co-sponsor the CHR resolution on Cuba put forth by [...] |
2005-03-17 10:53:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CU PHUM SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA187 |
SLOVENIAN PRESIDENT DRNOVSEK LUNCHES WITH COM, [...] (C) SUMMARY. At lunch 21 March with President Drnovsek, COM discussed Embassy security, got Drnvosek's positive assessment of the first 100 days of the Jansa government, and heard that PM Jansa and Drnovsek are meeting weekly. Drnovsek encouraged more U.S. work on global environmental protect [...] |
2005-03-22 11:06:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA190 |
SCENESETTER FOR DEPUTY SECRETARY ZOELLICK'S VISIT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Your visit comes as Slovene Prime Minister Janez Jansa completes his first 100 days in office, and the gentlemen's agreement to temper public criticism of the new government terminates. Jansa continues to enjoy strong personal popularity, upwards of 66% in recent polls, despi [...] |
2005-03-24 04:25:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ETRD SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA192 |
LJUBLJANA -- CONTINUED UNCLASSIFIED POUCH PROBLEMS [...] This is an action request. Please see paragraph 5. 2. In July 2004, DPM switched over to Austrian Airways to transport Post's unclassified incoming pouches. Since then, Post has experienced constant problems with pouches being late, or not arriving at all, on scheduled dates. Post does no [...] |
2005-03-25 10:48:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | ADPM AMGT SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA193 |
EXBS: COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR MS. ANNE GALER [...] American Embassy Ljubljana welcomes the visit of and grants Country Clearance to Advisor-Designate Anne Galer, to visit to Ljubljana, Slovenia from April 01 - 02, 2005, to consult with Embassy on EXBS Program handover. 2. The control officer for your visit is Steven Parker, office tel: 3 [...] |
2005-03-25 10:48:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PARM ETTC KSTC HR SI LO |
| 05LJUBLJANA194 |
URGENT DEMARCHE ON OSCE ROLE IN KYRGYZSTAN - [...] (SBU) COM spoke March 30 with Foreign Minister Rupel shortly before Rupel,s departure for Bishkek, using reftel talking points to urge him to find a continuous senior OSCE presence on the ground in Kyrgyzstan. Ambassador emphasized that the Secretary had asked him to call and noted that we w [...] |
2005-03-30 05:23:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OPDC PGOV PREL KG SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA197 |
EXBS: EXPORT CONTROL SYSTEM STANDARDS (SH) [...] Licensing authority (both munitions and dual use, if different). Ministry of Economy for dual use, Ministry of Defense for munitions 2. Interagency review of licenses. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ministry of Defense, Nuclear Safety Admin [...] |
2005-03-30 09:44:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KSTC PARM PREL SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA206 |
SLOVENIA: "WE DON'T HAVE WHALES, BUT WE WANT TO [...] (SBU) Econoff and Econ Specialist delivered reftel talking points 30 March to Emil Ferjancic, Post's chief interlocutor at the Ministry of the Environment (MOE). Ferjancic stated Slovenia is considering joining the International Whaling Commission (IWC) and ratifying the Convention. He said t [...] |
2005-03-31 11:04:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIS SENV SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA207 |
EXBS: SLOVENIA AND CROATIA PROGRAM ADVISORS MONTHLY [...] SUMMARY: Meetings were held in Zagreb to finalize efforts to put the TRACKER program online. The Croatian Maritime Police exhibited their maritime unit in Split to demonstrate their need for more modern equipment. Sixty radiation pagers were turned over to the Croatian Border Police. With [...] |
2005-04-01 01:18:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP HR SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA216 |
ODC SLOVENIA SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES REPORT, [...] SUMMARY. EUCOM provided three options on ACSA and we have contacted the Slovenes for their preference on how to proceed. The Combined Training and Education Plan was submitted to EUCOM; highlights are below. New FMF cases to purchase spares for Slovenia's HMMWVs were signed this month; the [...] |
2005-04-04 09:48:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA217 |
SLOVENIA OFFERS EXPERTISE ON MERCURY REDUCTION [...] During a 30 March demarche on an unrelated matter, Emil Ferjancic, Post's main interlocutor at the Ministry of the Environment, told Econoff and Econ Specialist Slovenia was interested in providing its expertise in mercury containment and reduction "if asked to do so." Post delivered reftel t [...] |
2005-04-05 04:17:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV AORC ETRD PREL SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA224 |
SLOVENIA: ZLSD RE-ELECTS PAHOR AND CHANGES ITS NAME [...] (U) SUMMARY: On Saturday, April 2, 2005, the United List of Social Democrats (ZLSD) held its Party Congress and elected its leadership for the next four years. Members of the Youth Wing won important positions, which will likely move the party away from the center and more to the left. The p [...] |
2005-04-05 10:08:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR ECON SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA231 |
CHR 61: SLOVENIA'S SUPPORT FOR CUBA RESOLUTION [...] Pol/econ Chief met with Jasna Lhotka, Head of the MFA's office for UN Affairs, and her successor, Bojana Cipot. In disucssion of reftel points, Lhotka reiterated Slovenia's support for this resolution and agreed that they would work to bring others on board. This work will take place in Ge [...] |
2005-04-08 00:51:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA234 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DR. MICHAEL FAVOROV [...] Embassy Ljubljana welcomes the visit of and grants Country Clearance to CDC/CAR Office Director Dr. Michael Favorov, to travel to Ljubljana, Slovenia on April 20 - 24, 2005, to participate in Euro WHO organized regional meeting of Directors of blood transfusion services Central and Eastern Eu [...] |
2005-04-08 10:07:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID KZ |
| 05LJUBLJANA235 |
SLOVENIA IN ISAF: NO CAVEATS AND POSSIBLY MORE [...] (S) Pol-Miloff delivered reftel talking points on 08 April to Stanislav Vidovic and Zorica Bukinac Cimpersek in the MFA Security Policy Department, noting in particular that Slovenia's "no caveats" policy for its ISAF troops allowed Slovenian Armed Forces (SAF) soldiers to be among the first [...] |
2005-04-08 10:32:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | SECRET | PREL MARR SI NATO |
| 05LJUBLJANA246 |
(S) SLOVENIA: NO REPORTED ARMS SALES TO YEMEN [...] (S) Pol-Miloff delivered reftel talking points on 08 April to MFA Security Policy Department staffer Bostjan Jerman, who handles non-proliferation issues and export controls. Having taken over his current portfolio just last year, Jerman was confident that no arms shipments from Slovenia hav [...] |
2005-04-13 05:00:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | SECRET | PARM PREL MASS ETTC SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA247 |
GOVT. OF SLOVENIA FINDS RESOURCES TO KEEP TIP NGO [...] No summary [...] |
2005-04-13 07:04:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA251 |
SLOVENIA ON SUPPORT FOR GAZA [...] DCM and Pol/Econ Chief delivered reftel points to Matej Marn, Chef de Cabinet for Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel. He had no immediate reaction but took on board our points and thanked us for the information. Minister Rupel will attend the Gymnich this weekend. ROBERTSON NNNN 2005LJU [...] |
2005-04-14 05:10:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAL KWBG PREL SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA260 |
SLOVENIA ATTENDING COMMUNITY OF DEMOCRACIES; [...] Slovenia will be represented at the Community of Democracies summit in Santiago by State Secretary Bozo Cerar (Deputy FM equivalent). Unfortunately, Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel will be traveling in Asia and Europe on OSCE business during that time, and the trip to Chile was not feasible. [...] |
2005-04-15 07:19:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM PREL SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA268 |
SLOVENIA ON U.S. CORN GLUTEN FEED [...] Econoff delivered reftel talking points 14 April to Franc But, State Secretary at the Slovene Ministry of Agriculture. Despite the negative outcome of the Standing Committee vote, Slovenia could be helpful to the U.S. as this matter progresses. State Secretary But said Slovenia would be willi [...] |
2005-04-19 11:18:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EAGR TBIO PREL SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA271 |
SLOVENIA RESPONSE TO APRIL 25 GAERC DEMARCHE [...] (U) Pol/Econ Chief delivered reftel points to Peter Grk and Vesna Hojnik, of the MFA's office for EU affairs. On Iraq, MEPP, and Lebanon, Grk said the Government of Slovenia (GOS) and EU views tracked closely with the United States. He expected that a decision on the Iraq conference would be [...] |
2005-04-21 06:50:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPAL PREL SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA275 |
ROMA EDUCATION DISPUTE RESOLVED TEMPORARILY [...] Summary. Slovenia's Minister of Education and Sport has recently made two visits to Novo Mesto in south-east Slovenia to address a dispute over the education of Roma children in that community. A temporary solution has been found which will place those children needing extra assistance in s [...] |
2005-04-25 06:40:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | KISL PHUM SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA285 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NORVAL FRANCIS [...] Embassy Ljubljana welcomes the visit of and grants Country Clearance to USEU Brussels Agricultural Minister-Counselor Norval Francis, to visit Ljubljana, Slovenia May 03 - 04, 2005, as a Committee Member for the FAPC Expert Training Seminar. 2. Control Officer for your visit is Matjaz Kav [...] |
2005-04-29 05:34:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR EUN |
| 05LJUBLJANA292 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR RENE ALEXANDER "ALEX" [...] Embassy Ljubljana welcomes the visit of and grants Country Clearance to U.S. Speaker Mr. Rene Alexander "Alex" Acosta, to travel to Ljubljana, Slovenia on May 07-10, 2005, to discuss trafficking issues, in support of post's objective to reduce trafficking in humans. 2. The Control Officer [...] |
2005-05-04 06:04:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OIIP SL PO |
| 05LJUBLJANA293 |
SLOVENIA AND IRAQ ESTABLISH DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS [...] (U) Following a decision reached at its 28 April session, the GoS issued a joint statement with the Government of Iraq on 29 April announcing that the Slovenian and Iraqi PermReps to the UN had exchanged notes establishing diplomatic relations. According to MFA Iraq Desk Officer Beti Likar, [...] |
2005-05-04 09:15:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV OFDP IZ SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA294 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR GORDON TODD [...] Embassy Ljubljana welcomes the visit of and grants Country Clearance to Mr. Gordon Todd, Counsel to Assistant Attorney General Alex Acosta, U.S. Department of Justice, to travel to Ljubljana, Slovenia on May 07 - 10, 2005, to accompany AAG Alex Acosta to participate in meetings on anti-traffi [...] |
2005-05-05 04:03:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OIIP |
| 05LJUBLJANA302 |
ODC SLOVENIA SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES REPORT, [...] SUMMARY. Interest in purchasing C-27 has been informally discussed; Multi-national military exercise is being hosted by Slovenia; HMMWV spare parts are arriving; Slovene uniforms available for EDA; Bell 412 IFF installation delays; ACSA may be signed by June; ODC Chief transition is being coo [...] |
2005-05-06 05:38:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA330 |
SLOVENIA VIEWS ON MAY 23 GAERC [...] Pol/Econ Chief delivered reftel talking points to Peter Grk of the MFA's Office for European Integration and Ales Balut of the Western Balkans Department on May 17. Slovenia's position on ESDP has not changed since our last discussion and Grk expressed the GoS' sincere desire, as a small coun [...] |
2005-05-18 08:58:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MARR MOPS SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA340 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NNSA PERSONNEL [...] Embassy Ljubljana welcomes the visit of and grants Country Clearance to NNSA/SLD funded personnel, to visit Ljubljana, Slovenia on June 06 to 11, 2005, to meet with Officials from Government of Slovenia regarding sustainability and training. Personnel: - Roberts, Randal James - Ve [...] |
2005-05-24 03:48:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG KNNP PARM TRGY SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA342 |
DESIGNATION OF NEW BACKUP REPORTING OFFICER FOR F-77 [...] As recommended in reftel, Post is advising Department of its newly appointed backup reporting officer for Post's F-77 Report. NAME: John D. Nylin TITLE: Second Secretary and Vice Consul SECURITY CLEARANCE: Top Secret EMAIL ADDRESS: NylinJD@state.gov TELEPHONE NUMBER: 386-1-200-5537 OFFICER [...] |
2005-05-24 06:03:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | CMGT SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA344 |
SLOVENIA ON CUBAN CANDIDACY FOR THE ILO GOVERNING [...] On 24 May, Econoff delivered reftel talking points to Jana Testen, Head of the International Department at the Ministry of Labor, Family, and Social Affairs. After hearing reftel points supporting the Barbados candidacy, Testen said she had just received a fax advocating the candidacy of Cuba [...] |
2005-05-25 04:43:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB PHUM PREL SI CU |
| 05LJUBLJANA345 |
SLOVENIA ON ILO'S PROPOSED BUDGET FOR 2006-2007 [...] On 24 May, Econoff delivered reftel talking points to Jana Testen, Head of the International Department at the Ministry of Labor, Family, and Social Affairs. Testen said she was aware of the budget concerns and expressed frustration over the membership fees that Slovenia pays to the ILO. Test [...] |
2005-05-25 06:18:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC ELAB SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA36 |
SLOVENIA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON MARKING AND [...] (C) On 20 January, Pol-Miloff delivered reftel talking points and position paper to MFA Security Policy Department staffer Bostjan Jerman, who handles SA/LW issues. Jerman mentioned that Ambassador Thalmann's draft text was discussed among EU member states in Brussels on 17 January. He said [...] |
2005-01-20 11:27:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA364 |
REQUISITION #19K002-5137 FOR LJUBLJANA [...] American Embassy Ljubljana, Slovenia would like to order the following Telephone Equipment, per reftel: - NT5D61AB, Pack IOP/CD-ROM/FD Multi-Disk Unit IODUC, 1ea - NT5D03PB, Pack 160MBs Memory and 68060E Call Processor CP4, 1ea - QPC43R, Pack Peripheral Signalling PS, 1e [...] |
2005-06-06 07:25:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT ANET KRIM |
| 05LJUBLJANA366 |
SLOVENIA: WILL SUPPORT COMMON EU POSITION ON CUBA [...] (C) Pol-Miloff delivered reftel talking points to MFA EU Department staffers Peter Grk and Vesna Hojnik on 06 June. Grk pointed out that Cuba is "not in Slovenia's strategic interest zone" and that Slovenia would only weigh in on the debate surrounding suspension of restrictive measures in or [...] |
2005-06-07 08:45:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM CU SI EUN |
| 05LJUBLJANA369 |
MTAG 05-96: SLOVENIA TO INVESTIGATE PROCUREMENT OF [...] No summary [...] |
2005-06-07 09:19:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | SECRET | PARM PREL ETTC IR SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA377 |
ODC SLOVENIA SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES REPORT, [...] SUMMARY. Embassy received a diplomatic note on ACSA from Slovene MFA; LOAs for JFCC and ASOC were signed; English language coordinator departed; Bell 412 IFF installation is delayed; EUCOM and DSCA approved the FY06 IMET program at the TPMR. 2. KEY ISSUES AND SIGNIFICANT EVENTS A. FMF [...] |
2005-06-09 06:18:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA382 |
SLOVENIA IN ADVANCE OF THE JUNE 13 GAERC [...] (C) Pol/Econ Chief met with the MFA EU Department's Peter Grk to deliver points in advance of June 13 GAERC. On the Balkans and Kosovo, Grk said that although opinions ranged in the EU on how and when Balkan countries should enter the EU, there is consensus that EU integration is the ultimate [...] |
2005-06-10 05:07:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA39 |
SLOVENIA: LITTLE EU SUPPORT FOR U.S. AMENDMENTS TO [...] (C) As reported ref B, Pol-Miloff delivered ref A talking points on 12 January to MFA Security Policy Department staffer Bostjan Jerman, who serves as MFA's point person for non-proliferation issues. Jerman read through the points and issue paper with interest, remarked that UNSCR 1540 is see [...] |
2005-01-21 02:30:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP KTIA MNUC PARM PREL PHSA EWWT SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA398 |
SLOVENIA ON US-EU ECONOMIC SUMMIT [...] Econoff delivered reftel talking points 15 June to Robert Kokalj, Head of the Economic Diplomacy Division at the MFA. Kokalj took pains several times during his comments to state that Slovenia and the EU have "roughly the same ideas" as the U.S. on transatlantic economic cooperation and growt [...] |
2005-06-15 05:52:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD ECIN SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA400 |
VWP BIOMETRIC PASSPORT REQUIREMENTS: SLOVENES EXPECT NO [...] Conoff delivered statement about USG policy on requirements for biometric passports for Visa Waiver Program (VWP) countries to Slovene government officials June 15, as directed in Ref. A. Conoff discussed the issue in an afternoon meeting with Andrej Ster, Director General of the MFA's Director [...] |
2005-06-15 08:52:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | CMGT PREL KPAO SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA401 |
DEMARCHE REQUEST: UNESCO BIOETHICS DECLARATION [...] Pol/Econ Chief spoke with Bojana Cipot of the MFA's office for UN Affairs and related the points in reftel. Cipot was not able to comment on our points but said she would be in touch with Slovenia's mission in Paris and request it contact USUNESCO to discuss the Declaration in further detail. [...] |
2005-06-15 09:07:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO UNESCO KSCI |
| 05LJUBLJANA402 |
SLOVENES SUPPORTIVE OF SWISS CIRCULAR NOTE AND [...] (SBU) Pol-Miloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA Legal Department staffer Ondina Blokar on 15 June. Blokar said that an interministerial working group on international human rights law issues had been requested to issue an opinion on the Swiss Circular Note and the Third Additional Protocol. [...] |
2005-06-15 23:36:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC PHUM PREF PREL IS SZ SI ICRC |
| 05LJUBLJANA407 |
SLOVENIA: PORTALS IMPLEMENTING AGREEMENT ENTERS [...] (U) The Department of Energy's Second Line of Defense Portals Implementing Agreement (the "Agreement") between the U.S. and Slovenia entered into force on May 23, 2005. The Agreement (full text in para 3, below) was signed by both parties on April 4, 2005. The U.S. diplomatic note (see reft [...] |
2005-06-17 08:49:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ETTC KNNP MNUC PARM PREL KTIA SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA413 |
SLOVENIA AND DELIVERABLES FOR US-EU CONFERENCE ON [...] Ambassador discussed reftel points with MFA State Secretary Bozo Cerar June 17. Cerar was interested to know SIPDIS how the sum of $205 million of Iraq debt had been attributed to Slovenia. He explained that he was under the impression that Serbia and/or Montenegro was claiming all this d [...] |
2005-06-21 05:53:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON EIND PGOV PREL IZ SI EUN |
| 05LJUBLJANA424 |
SLOVENIA ON UN REFORM [...] Ambassador discussed Ref A points with State Secretary Bozo Cerar on June 17, and Polecon Chief delivered Ref B points to Bojana Cipot of the MFA Department of Multilateral Affairs June 23. Cerar was very engaged on the issue of UN Reform and wanted to know what the top priority was for the U [...] |
2005-06-24 08:13:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | KUNR PREL AORC SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA438 |
COM LUNCH WITH SLOVENIAN PRIME MINISTER JANSA: [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Jansa told COM at lunch, June 28, that next week the GOS planned to review options for sending a team of trainers to Iraq . Jansa made clear his preference to go forward with a training contingent in Iraq, but noted that there was resistance from his coalition p [...] |
2005-06-28 10:01:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA448 |
SLOVENIA ON WMD PROLIFERATORS AND THEIR SUPPORTERS [...] (C) Econoff delivered reftel points 1 July to Bostjan Jerman of the MFA's Division for Security Policy. Jerman noted that he was unaware of the reftel Executive Order announcement, but said he would "immediately" pass the entity names to the Ministry of the Economy and Slovene intelligence. [...] |
2005-07-01 08:57:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL PGOV MNUC EFIN ETTC SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA449 |
SLOVENIA: COM LUNCH WITH PM JANSA - THE REST OF [...] (C) Summary. COM met with Prime Minister Janez Jansa June 28. In addition to Slovenia's support for the NATO training mission in Iraq (Ref A), they discussed a range of bilateral issues including denationalization, which is moving more slowly than hoped, but the current log jam should be bro [...] |
2005-07-01 08:59:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA458 |
SLOVENIA - LICENSING CONDITIONS IN THE [...] (U) On 27 June Econ Specialist discussed licensing conditions in Slovenia's telecommunications sector with Mira Zupancic, the Head of the Telecommunications Department at the Slovenian Agency for Post and Electronic Communications (APEC). Zupancic explained that there is no fee in connection [...] |
2005-07-07 04:54:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | ECPS ETRD EU SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA460 |
SLOVENIA: LIBERAL DEMOCRATS IN CRISIS [...] (C) Summary. Since Parliamentary elections in October 2004, the former ruling Liberal Democracy Party (LDS) has lost focus, cohesion and leadership - and there is no clear savior in sight. It is universally agreed among Slovenes that, from the time he assumed the role of Prime Minister, Anto [...] |
2005-07-07 09:36:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA461 |
ODC SLOVENIA SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES REPORT, [...] SUMMARY. The MOD signed the ACSA implementing letter; Gasper Kresnik is "FSN of the Year"; the new ODC Chief, Lt Col Gene Moty arrived; Bell 412 IFF installation schedule is not yet finalized. 2. KEY ISSUES AND SIGNIFICANT EVENTS A. FMF 1) ENGLISH LANGUAGE TRAINING (S3-D-TAC, $650,1 [...] |
2005-07-08 02:37:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA483 |
SLOVENIA: NEW GENERAL PROSECUTOR LOOKING AT WHITE [...] (SBU) Summary. COM met July 7 with Barbara Brezigar, recently appointed General State Prosecutor for Slovenia. Brezigar, just back from Eurojust in Brussels is focused on combating white-collar crime and is interested in cooperating with the USG to build prosecutorial capacity in Slovenia. B [...] |
2005-07-13 08:21:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SOCI PINR KPAO SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA493 |
RESPONSE TO PROPOSED RESEARCH PROJECT NO. [...] Embassy Ljubljana has no objection to grant issuance discussed in reftel. ROBERTSON NNNN 2005LJUBLJ00493 - Classification: UNCLASSIFIED v1.6.2 [...] |
2005-07-15 03:29:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | KSCA TBIO OSCI SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA497 |
SLOVENIA IN ADVANCE OF GAERC (JULY 18-19) [...] (C) Pol/Econ chief discussed reftel points with Peter Grk of the MFA's EU Division on July 14. The GoS seems generally to be in agreement with and to support U.S. positions on the issues covered. Grk reiterated Slovenia's consistent support for opening Accession negotiations with Turkey, t [...] |
2005-07-15 06:40:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA509 |
LUNCH WITH SLOVENE PRESIDENT JANEZ DRNOVSEK: [...] (SBU) Summary: At Lunch with COM July 18, President Drnovsek focused largely on domestic issues including the Government of Prime Minister Janez Jansa and what seems to be the biggest obstacle (his coalition partners) to needed economic reform and potential foreign investment; the current d [...] |
2005-07-20 05:01:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA511 |
SLOVENIA: INVITATION TO SEPTEMBER 20-22, 2005 [...] (U) On July 21, PolMilOff delivered the letter of invitation and conference schedule provided in reftel to Ms. Mojca Jazbinsek Volk, Acting Director General of the Foreign Economic Relations Directorate at the Slovenian Ministry of the Economy, and requested a reply by August 15, 2005. 2. [...] |
2005-07-21 03:59:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | KSTC PARM PREL MASS ETTC SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA523 |
COM MEETS WITH INTERIOR MINSTER ON TIP, ANTI [...] (U) Summary. In a meeting with Minister of Interior Dragutin Mate, COM discussed USG concern about the continuing delay by the GOS to fund the NGO Kljuc which Mate insisted he wanted to do, but was being slowed down because of a new law which severely prescribes awarding government contracts t [...] |
2005-07-27 03:08:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM CMGT SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA549 |
SLOVENIA: UNHCR COUNTRY DIRECTOR MEETS WITH COM [...] (U) Summary: On July 21, UNHCR Director for Slovenia Greg Garras met with COM to discuss the state of Slovenian asylum policy at the end of his three and a half year tenure. Garras lamented that Slovenia,s asylum policies have continued to regress under the current center-right government - a [...] |
2005-08-03 08:37:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREF SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA553 |
SLOVENIA'S FM RUPEL ON UNSC REFORM [...] (C) In a meeting with FM Dimitrij Rupel on another topic July 29, COM raised the issue of Slovenia's position on the G-4 proposal for UN Security Council reform. Rupel was expecting the question and paused before answering that Slovenia was still working to find the right position for itself [...] |
2005-08-04 07:51:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KUNR SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA555 |
ODC SLOVENIA SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES REPORT, [...] SUMMARY: THE PREVIOUS ODC CHIEF, LT COL MARGARET CLAYTOR, HAS DEPARTED FOR HER NEW ASSIGNMENT AT DEPARTMENT OF STATE IN WASHINGTON. THE NEW DCM ARRIVES FRIDAY 5 AUGUST. 2. KEY ISSUES AND SIGNIFICANT EVENTS: A. FMS: NSTR B. DCA: THE AMBASSADOR RECEIVED A LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT [...] |
2005-08-04 08:03:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA569 |
GUANTANAMO POINTS DISSEMINATED IN SLOVENIA [...] (SBU) Post delivered reftel points to U.S. Desk Officer Marjana Prvinsek-Bokal August 5. Prvisnek will share the points with other relevant offices, many of which are minimally staffed during this heavy vacation month. PAO also delivered the points to the Foreign Minister's press officer, M [...] |
2005-08-09 07:20:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KISL KPAO PGOV PREL |
| 05LJUBLJANA57 |
SLOVENIA: PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR IRAQ'S ELECTIONS AND [...] Pol/Econ Chief and British DCM, Bob Setterfield, met jointly with Jasna Grasek, the new Head of the Department for Africa, Asia, and the Pacific, and Iraq desk officer, Beti Likar to deliver reftel points. Grasek, reflecting the new openness towards the U.S. PM Jansa has made a priority for [...] |
2005-01-26 10:40:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL IZ SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA576 |
RENEWAL OF ISAF'S U.N. MANDATE [...] (C) On August 9, PolMil Off met with MFA Security Policy Division staffer Zorica Bukinac Cimpersek to deliver reftel points. Cimpersek noted that Slovenia thought of ISAF and CFC-A integration as inevitable, but that Slovenia did not want to commit itself to a final decision on ISAF's mandate [...] |
2005-08-10 08:10:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL SI NATO |
| 05LJUBLJANA587 |
RENEWAL OF ISAF'S U.N. MANDATE: SLOVENIA OFFERS [...] (C) On July 12, MFA Security Division staffer Zorica Bukinac Cimpersek informed PolMil Off that she wished to clarify her previous comments (reported ref B) to note that Slovenia considered the current ISAF mandate broad enough to allow for ISAF-OEF integration and the realization of ISAF's se [...] |
2005-08-12 05:40:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL SI NATO |
| 05LJUBLJANA593 |
CHARGE DISCUSSES IRAQ AND TIP WITH SLOVENE DG FOR [...] (C) Summary. Stanislav Rascan, MFA Director General for Policy Planning and Multilateral Affairs requested a meeting with Charge to discuss Iraq and Trafficking in Persons. On Iraq, Rascan specifically asked for USG assistance in promoting its International MBA program in Iraq. The GOS has [...] |
2005-08-16 05:50:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PHUM PREL SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA597 |
SLOVENIA: AFGHAN ELECTION SUPPORT [...] Polecon Chief discussed reftel points with OSCE Task Force member Alesa Sovinc on August 9. Sovinc said the Government of Slovenia was interested in ensuring the success of election monitoring in Afghanistan. However, it does not have extra funds to donate towards the effort. As Chairman i [...] |
2005-08-17 04:48:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL AF SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA599 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR MR. JOHN PAYNE [...] Embassy Ljubljana welcomes the visit of and grants Country Clearance to Mr. John H. Payne, Animal and Plant Health Inspector, to visit Bled, Slovenia, from September 10 to 15, 2005. Mr. Payne will attend NATO FAPC Vital Respources seminar. 2. Control Officer for your visit is Spela Zlatna [...] |
2005-08-18 05:37:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR |
| 05LJUBLJANA600 |
SLOVENIA SUPPORTS TURKEY'S EU ACCESSION PROCESS [...] (C) Pol/Econ Chief spoke with Robert Kremelj of the MFA Department for Integration and Economic Relations. He manages the EU enlargement portfolio. Kremlj repeated Slovenia's consistent position which is that it supports Turkey's accession, assuming it meets all the necessary criteria, and [...] |
2005-08-18 06:48:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL TU SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA61 |
SLOVENIA PM CONSIDERING IRAQ DEPLOYMENT: "WE'RE [...] (C) On January 27, I called Prime Minister Jansa to express my appreciation for his statement on Iraq at his January 25 Brussels' press conference. (NOTE: Jansa was quoted as saying Slovenia will consider sending troops to Iraq to train the local security forces there..."We will consider an [...] |
2005-01-28 10:35:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA610 |
SLOVENIA: LUNCH WITH PM: MOVING FORWARD ON [...] (C) Summary: In one-on-one lunch August 23, PM Jansa said he would continue in September to try to move his coalition toward accepting a deployment of trainers/mentors to Iraq, noting that political progress on the Iraqi constitution should make his job easier. He reported that that day he [...] |
2005-08-24 08:47:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR ECON SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA611 |
SLOVENIA'S PM JANEZ JANSA: CHALLENGE OF A CLOQ US [...] (SBU) Three months shy of one year in office, Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa may feel frustrated that his plans for change and reform are not moving more swiftly. It is clear, however, that he has managed to lay the groundwork for Slovenes to make the psychological shift from a minor c [...] |
2005-08-24 09:03:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA62 |
`I AM NOT A TROUBLEMAKER': COM MEETS NEW SLOVENIAN [...] Summary: In a January 24 courtesy call, new Minister of Environment and Spatial Planning, Janez Podobnik told COM about his plans for the Ministry, highlighting challenges of nuclear waste disposal and biotech. He also stated that there might be opportunities for US investors as Slovenia plans [...] |
2005-01-28 10:35:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD PINR SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA620 |
SLOVENIA IN ADVANCE OF SEPTEMBER 1-2 GYMNICH [...] Pol/Econ Chief discussed reftel points on August 25 with Peter Grk, the European Correspondent in the Dept. of European Integration and Economic Relations. Turkey: Grk said it would be hard to imagine that the EU would set new conditions at this point for opening talks with Turkey, but he [...] |
2005-08-29 08:37:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAL SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA627 |
GRANTS OFFICER APPOINTMENT FOR PHILIP M. BEEKMAN [...] FOLLOWING IS A CABLE REQUESTING GRANT AUTHORITY FROM A/OPE FOR INCOMING PDO PHILIP M. BEEKMAN. 2. PLEASE APPOINT POST'S INCOMING PDO AS GRANTS OFFICER. MR. PHILIP M. BEEKMAN SHOULD HAVE WARRANT EFFECTIVE SEPTEMBER 1, 2005 THROUGH SEPTEMBER 1, 2007. INFORMATION ON PDO BEEKMAN FOLLOWS: A. [...] |
2005-08-31 03:55:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | ASUP AMGT KPAO |
| 05LJUBLJANA628 |
RUPEL ON TRANSNISTRIAN ELECTIONS, SOUTH OSSETIA [...] (C) After meeting with Minsk Group Co-Chairs on Karabakh (septel), Slovenian FM and OSCE CIO Dmitrij Rupel pulled aside Ambassador Steven Mann for a private talk on Transnistria. He said that he had spoken with Ukrainian FM Tarasyuk a few days previously and Tarasyuk had talked up the Ukrai [...] |
2005-08-31 04:59:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MD SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA629 |
OSCE CO-CHAIRS BRIEF CIO RUPEL [...] (C) Summary: Minsk Group Co-Chairs briefed OSCE CIO Rupel on the eve of his Caucasus trip. The Co-Chairs advised that progress on Karabakh would be on hold until after the November Azerbaijan elections. They encouraged the CIO to probe with Presidents Kocharian and Aliyev for candid readou [...] |
2005-08-31 05:01:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA634 |
SLOVENIA ON FOOD AID AND THE WTO [...] (U) Econoff delivered reftel nonpaper 31 August to Marko Verbic, Head of the EU Coordination and International Affairs Service at the Slovene Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food. Acknowledging the need for CSSD reforms, Verbic said he felt concerns over transportation costs could be one [...] |
2005-09-02 08:38:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAGR SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA639 |
TFUSO1: SLOVENIA OFFERS ASSISTANCE [...] Slovenia has offered to send SIT 22 million (approx. $110,000) worth of supplies to the U.S. to assist the victims of Hurricane Katrina. According to the Department of Civil Protection at the Ministry of Defense the donation will include: 250 adult camp beds 250 mattresses 780 blankets [...] |
2005-09-06 08:59:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR EAID PREL MARR US SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA645 |
Hardware Acceptance Notice for Received Consular [...] Equipment shipment has been received, accepted, and inventoried by post. The shipment was complete and no equipment was damaged. 2. Post will return to CA/EX/CSD the following excess equipment received: 2 (Two) HP D530 TCM Servers, Serial #s MXL44002G7 and MXL4410PH2 3. Additional [...] |
2005-09-09 00:45:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | KCSY CMGT AADP AMGT SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA652 |
SLOVENIA ON JOINING AN INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP ON [...] Charge delivered ref A points to MFA director for Americas on September 8, Polecon Chief shared the points with the UN Department at the MFA, and Econoff delivered the points to the State Secretary at the Ministry of Agriculture. None were able to definitively commit Slovenia to joining the I [...] |
2005-09-12 06:00:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | KSCA EAGR EAID ECON PREL SOCI TBIO SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA653 |
HURRICANE KATRINA AND ENERGY SUPPLY DISRUPTIONS IN [...] (U) Summary: Econoff delivered reftel points 8 September to Miro Vidmar, Head of the Division for Oil, Food Supplies and Reserves at the Ministry of the Economy. Vidmar said Slovenia was concerned with the potential for continued price increases in the wake of the Katrina tragedy, but felt tha [...] |
2005-09-12 06:00:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ENRG SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA67 |
COM CALLS ON DIRECTOR OF SLOVENIA'S CORRUPTION [...] (C) Summary. In a January 27 courtesy call, COM met with Drago Kos, the head of Slovenia's newly independent Commission for the Prevention of Corruption, (CPC). Kos explained the CPC was established as an independent Commission to address the issue of preventingcorruption. It has no invest [...] |
2005-02-01 10:21:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KCOR PINR SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA672 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ROSSITZA B. PETROV AND [...] Embassy Ljubljana welcomes the visit of and grants Country Clearance to U.S. Export Control Technical Specialists Rossitza B. Petrov and Jennifer Carol Whitcomb, to travel to Ljubljana, Slovenia, October 08-13, 2005, to conduct an "Internal Control Program Instructor Training" workshop. 2 [...] |
2005-09-20 10:18:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC PARM PREL KNNP KSTC SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA675 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR RICHARD BARTHOLOMEW [...] Embassy Ljubljana welcomes the visit of and grants Country Clearance to Senior Budget Advisor, Mr. Richard Bartholomew, to travel to Ljubljana, Slovenia, from September 21 - 24, 2005, to visit the Center for Excellence in Finance. 2. There is no requirement to check in with the Embassy u [...] |
2005-09-21 06:06:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA682 |
Slovenian Referendum on the new Law on the National [...] (U) SUMMARY: On Sunday, September 25 Slovenians will vote in a referendum on whether the new Law on National Radio and Television should be implemented. The main issue is whether the Parliament will have the authority to approve a greater proportion of the Program Council members of Public R [...] |
2005-09-23 09:10:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR ECON SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA686 |
Everyone Wins: Slovenian Referendum on the new Law [...] (U) SUMMARY: On Sunday, September 25, Slovenians, by a very slight margin, voted in favor of the new Law on National Radio and Television. It was the expected close result with 50.2 percent in favor and 49.1 percent opposing the new law. Turnout was also, as expected, low, with only 30.7 per [...] |
2005-09-26 07:09:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ECON SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA688 |
Response to CY2006 Compensation Questionnaire -- [...] Below please find Embassy Ljubljana's response to the CY2006 FSN Compensation Questionnaire. These answers have been approved by Post Management and the ICASS Council. 2. (SBU) Questionnaire --------------------------------------------- ------ Competitive Compensation Position ----------- [...] |
2005-09-29 01:51:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AFSN AMGT KICA |
| 05LJUBLJANA689 |
SLOVENIA: SUA DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (U) On September 28, PolMil Off delivered reftel demarche to MFA Security Policy Division staffer Maja Zuzek. Zuzek did not have any immediate comment and noted that Slovenia was not heavily involved in the SUA negotiations. ROBERTSON NNNN 2005LJUBLJ00689 - Classification: UNCLASSIFIED [...] |
2005-09-29 03:34:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP KTIA MNUC PARM PREL PGOV EWWT PHSA SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA692 |
SLOVENIA IN ADVANCE OF OCTOBER GAERC [...] No summary [...] |
2005-09-29 08:25:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM KPAL SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA696 |
COMBATING EXTREMISM IN SLOVENIA [...] (S) SUMMARY. Religious and political extremism are very rare in Slovenia. With a homogeneous population of only two million people, Slovenian society and politics function on the basis of strong social networks that foster a culture of compromise, consensus, and centrism. Nevertheless, the s [...] |
2005-09-30 06:22:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | SECRET | KDEM KPAO PREL EAID PHUM SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA713 |
60TH UNFC: SLOVENIA SUPPORTS U.S. UNGA FIRST [...] (U) On October 5, MFA Security Policy staffer Bostjan Jerman called PolMil off from New York to respond to reftel demarche, which was delivered on October 4. Jerman noted Slovenia was generally supportive of the U.S. resolution but that it had not yet discussed it with its EU partners. Noting [...] |
2005-10-06 08:06:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL SI UNGA |
| 05LJUBLJANA737 |
SLOVENE PRESIDENT PROPOSES KOSOVO CONFIDENCE [...] (SBU) Summary. On October 19, Slovene President Janez Drnovsek invited Contact Group (CG) Ambassadors in Ljubljana to lunch to lay out his idea of an "informal meeting" to be held in Slovenia to launch status negotiations on Kosovo. The invited would include Presidents, Prime Ministers and P [...] |
2005-10-20 00:24:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SI YI |
| 05LJUBLJANA746 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ROSSITZA B. PETROV AND [...] Embassy Ljubljana welcomes the visit of and grants Country Clearance to Rossitza B. Petrov and Eric de Nijs, to visit Ljubljana, Slovenia, November 06 to 11, 2005, to participate in ICP Instructor Training Workshop. 2. The Control Officer for your visit is Colleen Hyland, Office phone: 3 [...] |
2005-10-21 10:10:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PARM ETTC KSTC SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA748 |
SLOVENIA: COM MEETS WITH DEFENSE MINISTER, ITF [...] (C) SUMMARY: On October 18, COM met with International Trust Fund for Demining (ITF) Director Dorijan Marsic to discuss the possibility of sending demining trainers and Explosive Ordinance Disposal (EOD) specialists to the NATO Training Mission in Iraq (NTM-I). Marsic indicated that ITF was [...] |
2005-10-24 07:27:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS ECON PGOV PREL SI NATO |
| 05LJUBLJANA756 |
SLOVENIA: INDEPENDENT KOSOVO - WHAT WAS DRNOVSEK [...] (C) Summary. On October 19 Slovene President Janez Drnovsek briefed Contact Group (CG) Ambassadors in Ljubljana on his nine point plan for conditional independence of Kosovo (Reftel). (Note: text of nine-point plan will come spetel). Much to the surprise of the CG Ambassadors, the Foreign Mi [...] |
2005-10-26 08:27:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SI YI |
| 05LJUBLJANA757 |
SLOVENIA'S EFFORTS TO FIGHT AVIAN FLU [...] (U) Summary: In light of the geographic proximity of recent cases of avian flu in neighboring countries, Slovenia realizes it will likely see (and may already have) cases of avian flu within its borders. In order to prevent or at least contain possible outbreaks, the GOS has undertaken a ser [...] |
2005-10-26 08:44:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | KSCA EAGR EAID ECON PREL SOCI TBIO SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA758 |
DRNOVSEK'S NINE POINT PLAN FOR KOSOVO [...] (SBU) Per Reftels following is the text of the letter and nine-point plan Slovenian President Janez Drnovsek delivered to Contact Group Ambassadors October 20. It has previously been faxed to the Department, US Office Pristina and Embassy Belgrade. Begin Text: Dear Sir, You probably agr [...] |
2005-10-26 09:03:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SI YI |
| 05LJUBLJANA764 |
SLOVENIA ON BELARUS POLICY [...] (C) Summary. Slovenia currently has a significant (for its size) commercial relationship with Belarus totaling around USD 30 million in trade; politically, relations are cool. The Government of Slovenia (GOS) agrees that it is important for the US and EU to have a coordinated approach to [...] |
2005-10-28 07:18:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SI BO |
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ACCOUNTING FOR BFIF-FUNDED AGRICULTURE [...] On 6 October, Embassy Ljubljana used funds from a Business Facilitation Incentive Fund grant to host a seminar on agricultural coexistence in Slovenia. As reported reftel, the event was the first ever of its kind hosted by Post and helped pave the way for open, science- based debate on biote [...] |
2005-11-15 00:12:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON ETRD TBIO SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA786 |
ODC SLOVENIA SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES REPORT, [...] SUMMARY: SLOVENIA IS SHOWING INTEREST IN PURCHASING EITHER THE C-27 OR CASA FOR LOGISTICS SUPPORT OF THEIR DEPLOYED TROOPS. RAYTHEON WILL BE PITCHING A JAVELIN, STINGER AND TOW MISSILE CAPABILITY FOR SLOVENIA'S 152 ARMORED INFANTRY FIGHTING VEHICLE PROCUREMENT. WE ARE WORKING TO STREAMLINE [...] |
2005-11-15 04:23:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA794 |
SLOVENIA: RESTITUTION PROCESS FOR JEWISH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Following a September 22 meeting between Slovenia's Commission for Resolving Open Questions Pertaining to Religious Communities and the President of the Jewish Community of Slovenia (JCS), Andrej Kozar Beck, the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) announced that it will conduct a compreh [...] |
2005-11-18 08:18:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KNAR SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA795 |
SLOVENIA ON SUPPORT FOR U.S. CANDIDACY FOR THE [...] (U) Econoff delivered reftel talking points 15 November to Ales Zabukovec of the Maritime Office in the Slovene Ministry of Transportation. In an official reply on 18 November, Zabukovec said that Slovenia would "do what is in its power" to support the U.S. candidacy. ROBERTSON NNNN [...] |
2005-11-18 08:25:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIA AORC EWWT PHSA SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA799 |
SLOVENIA TO SUPPORT U.S. CANDIDACY TO IMO [...] (U) The Slovene Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) confirmed 21 November to Econoff that Slovenia would support the U.S. candidacy for re-election to category "A" in the IMO Council. Slovenia will be represented at the IMO Assembly by Iztok Mirosic (head of the delegation and Slovene Ambassador [...] |
2005-11-21 08:49:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIA AORC EWWT PHSA SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA80 |
COM MEETS WITH FORMER SLOVENE PM ANTON ROP [...] (C) Summary. In his first meeting with COM, former PM Anton Rop was forthcoming on his views for the future of his party, the challenges faced by the current government and Slovenia's close ties to Europe. He views his new role as leader of the main opposition party as an opportunity to reg [...] |
2005-02-04 11:50:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA800 |
SLOVENIA IN ADVANCE OF NOVEMBER GAERC [...] (U) PolEcon Chief met with GOS European Correspondent Peter Grk to discuss reftel points November 18. 2. (U) Defense Issues: Grk appreciated USG views on the relationship between the European Defense Agency and NATO. As a small country, it is particularly interested in ensuring no dupl [...] |
2005-11-21 09:20:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA807 |
SLOVENIA ON CONTROLLING AVIAN FLU [...] (U) Summary: On 21 November, Econoff and Econ Assistant met with Simona Salamon, Deputy Chief Veterinary Officer at the Slovene Veterinary Administration, to discuss Slovenia's efforts to control avian flu. Salamon has the lead in the GOS for all avian flu related matters. Following is a su [...] |
2005-11-23 06:31:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO SENV ECON EAGR EAID PREL SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA808 |
SLOVENIA ON IRAN RELATED BRIEFING [...] (S) On November 23, DCM, C/SIMO, and PolMiloff delivered reftel demarche and presentation to MFA Director for Policy Planning and Multilateral Policy (A/S equivalent) Stanislav Rascan, Security Department Head Stanislav Vidovic, and Security Department staffer Rina Pavlin Gnidovec. During the [...] |
2005-11-23 08:41:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | SECRET | KNNP PARM PREL AORC SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA822 |
SLOVENIA ON CONTROLLING AVIAN FLU: PART TWO [...] (U) Summary: On 28 November, Econoff and Econ Assistant met with Dr. Marija Seljak, Director General of the Public Health Directorate at the Slovene Ministry of Health, to discuss Slovenia's preparedness for a potential influenza pandemic. Following is a summary of measures the Health Ministr [...] |
2005-11-30 00:20:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO SENV ECON EAGR EAID PREL SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA829 |
Hardware Acceptance Notice for Received Consular [...] Equipment shipment has been received, accepted, and inventoried by post. The shipment was complete and no equipment was damaged. 2. Post will return to CA/EX/CSD the following non-functioning equipment that has been replaced: 1 (One) Gateway ATXAEG LX3 E6000 NOR TCM Server, Serial # 0 [...] |
2005-12-01 04:05:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | KCSY CMGT AADP AMGT SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA831 |
SLOVENIA ON NAC COMMUNIQUE AND U.S. CONCERNS [...] (C) PolMiloff delivered reftel demarche on December 1, 2005 to MFA Security Policy Department Deputy Director Oto Pungartnik and staffer Zorica Bukinac Cimpersek. Pungartnik said he was surprised the discussion of the language on CFE/Istanbul Commitments had even been broached at the HLTF and [...] |
2005-12-01 07:39:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | KCFE PARM PREL SI NATO |
| 05LJUBLJANA840 |
REFERENDUM INITIATIVE KEEPS ANTI-CORRUPTION [...] (SBU) Summary: A last ditch attempt to call a referendum on this issue has delayed the Government's plan to abolish Slovenia's independent Anti-Corruption Commission and transfer oversight responsibilities for government corruption to the parliament. The Government claims the Commission is t [...] |
2005-12-07 08:32:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KCOR SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA847 |
TIP: GOVT. OF SLOVENIA PAYS NGO FOR WORK AND PLANS [...] (SBU) Summary: After nearly 12 months of promises, and regular and persistent inquiries from the Embassy, the GOS has finally committed to paying the anti-trafficking NGO Kljuc for the shelter and other services it has provided to trafficking victims in 2005. For 2006, the GOS plans to issu [...] |
2005-12-13 07:50:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA848 |
SLOVENIA ON AI-RELATED POULTRY IMPORT RESTRICTIONS [...] (U) Econ Specialist delivered ref A points to Rok Tomsic, U.S. desk officer at the Slovene Ministry of the Economy, and Simona Salamon, Deputy Chief Veterinary Officer at the Ministry of Agriculture. As reported ref B, Slovenia currently bans poultry imports from 14 countries, all of which ha [...] |
2005-12-13 08:42:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EAGR ECON SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA857 |
ODC SLOVENIA SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES REPORT, NOVEMBER 2005 [...] SUMMARY: - RAYTHEON HAS BRIEFED THE SLOVENIANS ON TOW, JAVELIN AND STINGER WEA - THE SLOVENIANS HAVE INFORMALLY INDICATED THAT THEY WILL BE SUBMITTI - WE HAVE A DISAM MET SCHEDULED FOR THE NEW SLOVENIAN FMS CASE MANAGE - THE SLOVENE MINISTER OF DEFENSE WILL BE INVITED TO CLOSE ONE OF T [...] |
2005-12-15 05:18:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA859 |
FY06 "JOURNAL OF DEMOCRACY" SUBSCRIPTION [...] American Embassy Ljubljana, Slovenia, would like to subscribe to the following publication per reftel: Publication: Journal of Democracy Year: 2006 Number of Subscriptions: 3 ea 2. Please charge the ordered subscriptions against the following fiscal data: Agency: 1900 Appropria [...] |
2005-12-16 01:59:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP |
| 05LJUBLJANA862 |
ODC SLOVENIA SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES REPORT, [...] SUMMARY: - RAYTHEON HAS BRIEFED THE SLOVENIANS ON TOW, JAVELIN AND STINGER WEAPON SYSTEMS. - THE SLOVENIANS HAVE INFORMALLY INDICATED THAT THEY WILL BE SUBMITTING AN LOR FOR THE PURCHASE OF THE MILES AND IHITS SYSTEMS. - WE HAVE A DISAM MET SCHEDULED FOR THE NEW SLOVENIAN FMS CASE MAN [...] |
2005-12-16 07:35:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA870 |
SLOVENIA ON POSSIBLE NORTH KOREAN ILLICIT [...] (S) Econoff delivered reftel points 16 December to Klaudijo Stroligo, Director of the Office for Money Laundering Prevention at the Slovene Ministry of Finance, and to Bostjan Jerman, security policy staffer at the MFA. Stroligo was not personally aware of the Banco Delta Asia case, but said h [...] |
2005-12-20 02:33:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | SECRET | EFIN KJUS KNNP KTFN KN SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA873 |
2006 HOLIDAY CLOSURE - LJUBLJANA [...] No summary [...] |
2005-12-20 08:58:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT |
| 05LJUBLJANA876 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ROSSITZA PETROV [...] Embassy Ljubljana welcomes the visit of and grants Country Clearance to Export Control Specialist Rossitza Petrov, to travel to Ljubljana, Slovenia on January 28 - February 02, 2005. Mrs. Petrov will assist the Ministry of Economy and the DOC'S Local Subcontractor, ARCTUR, in conducting a tw [...] |
2005-12-22 04:30:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC PARM PREL KSTC SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA882 |
OSCE: U/S BURNS BILATERAL MEETING WITH CIO [...] (U) Summary. Meeting on the margins of the OSCE Ministerial, U/S Burns and Slovene Foreign Minister and Chairman in Office of the OSCE Dimitrij Rupel discussed Slovenia's cooperation in and contribution to international peacekeeping missions; the Government of Slovenia's (GOS) recent politi [...] |
2005-12-27 07:12:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MOPS SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA884 |
SLOVENIA ON US-EU AIR SERVICES AGREEMENT [...] (U) Econoff delivered ref A points 15 December to Jozef Slana, head of the Slovene Ministry of Transport's Civil Aviation Directorate. Slana said that Slovenia was not participating in the U.S.-EU negotiations, as there are no direct flights between the U.S. and Slovenia. Slana said, however [...] |
2005-12-28 01:49:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ETRD ECON SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA885 |
SLOVENIA ON RUSSIA-UKRAINE GAS NEGOTIATIONS [...] Econoff delivered reftel points 28 December to Oliver Dajic, North America desk officer at the MFA. Dajic said he would pass along the information within the MFA. Contacts on the MFA's Russia desk as well as at the Ministry of the Economy that deal with natural gas matters were all on leave [...] |
2005-12-28 04:08:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA886 |
SLOVENIA ON EIB INVESTMENT IN SYRIA [...] Econoff delivered reftel points 28 December to Bostjan Jerman, MFA security policy staffer, and Oliver Dajic, MFA desk officer for North America. Both Jerman and Dajic understood the USG's dismay at the EIB decision and said they would immediately pass along the information within the MFA. Du [...] |
2005-12-28 05:05:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD EFIN PREL PGOV SI |
| 05LJUBLJANA894 |
SLOVENIA ON EIB IN SYRIA: PUSH THE BIG PLAYERS [...] (C) Econoff delivered ref A points 30 December to Sibil Svilan, CEO of the Slovene Export Corporation and Slovenian representative to the European Investment Bank. A former senior Finance Ministry official and long time EIB board member, Svilan said he was not aware of the USG position on the [...] |
2005-12-30 05:38:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD EFIN PREL PGOV |
| 05LJUBLJANA92 |
SLOVENIA: INCREASED CONTRIBUTIONS EXPECTED FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Building on COM's recent conversations with PM Janez Jansa and DefMin Karl Erjavec, the snapshot below provides new information about Slovenian contributions for Iraq and Afghanistan and summarizes what we have reported piecemeal in recent weeks. Slovenia may offer five or more [...] |
2005-02-10 11:43:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR SI NATO |
| 05LJUBLJANA96 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DR. LEROY KEY [...] Embassy Ljubljana welcomes the visit of and grants Country Clearance to A/OPR/OS Regional Educational Officer, to travel to Ljubjana, Slovenia on March 24 - 30, 2005, to meet with principal officers and other appropriate officers, regarding dependent education. 2. The Control Officer for y [...] |
2005-02-11 10:13:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | ASCH |
| 06LJUBLJANA101 |
SLOVENIA: DARFUR, KOSOVO, A NEW MOVEMENT: WHAT IS PRESIDENT DRNOVSEK UP TO? [...] (C) Summary: In the past four months Slovenian President Drnovsek has dramatically increased his activities on both the international and domestic scenes. He has put forward an initiative on resolving the status of Kosovo, publicly called for the EU to drop cap subsidies in WTO trade negotiat [...] |
2006-02-15 03:05:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL DARFR EAID SI PGOV |
| 06LJUBLJANA108 |
SLOVENIA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON DONATIONS TO IRAQI [...] (U) PolMiloff delivered reftel demarche on February 16 to MFA Security Policy Counselor Zorica Bukinac Cimpersek. Cimpersek did not have any immediate reaction to the demarche, other than to say that the MFA would consider our request. ROBERTSON [...] |
2006-02-17 05:48:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS MOPS PINS PREL |
| 06LJUBLJANA109 |
SLOVENIA BACKSLIDING ON ASYLUM PROCEDURES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On Monday February 6, the National Assembly passed amendments to Slovenia's Asylum Law that will give the police significant new powers in adjudicating requests for asylum and reduce the role of trained asylum caseworkers. The new amendments are likely to further erode safegua [...] |
2006-02-17 07:38:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA129 |
SLOVENIA: ROUNDTABLE ON ISLAM AND THE WEST FOSTERS [...] (U) SUMMARY. On February 21, the Embassy and the University of Primorska co-organized a roundtable on "Islam and the West" at the newly open American Corner in Koper. With excellent organization provided by the University and exceptional attendance by Slovenian citizens, students, and the med [...] |
2006-02-24 07:30:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KPAO SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA132 |
NEW FACES, SAME STORY: SLOVENE PRIVATIZATION UPDATE [...] (C) Summary: The current Government of Slovenia (GOS), in office since December 2004, came into power on a platform of change. One of the key elements of the coalition agreement was economic reform, including plans to extract the state from the economy. The GOS has said it specifically wants [...] |
2006-03-01 05:21:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV ETRD SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA14 |
SLOVENIA: POL-MIL OUTLOOK FOR 2006 [...] (C) SUMMARY. In 2006, a new leadership team will consolidate its power within the Ministry of Defense (MOD) and the Slovenian Armed Forces (SAF) will continue the process of transformation to meet NATO's standards and prepare for the challenges of the future. Slovenia's defense and security [...] |
2006-01-06 07:51:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PGOV PINR SI NATO |
| 06LJUBLJANA141 |
SLOVENIA: VISIT OF MADELYN SPIRNAK HELPS MOVE [...] (U) SUMMARY: Senior Advisor for Biotechnology Madelyn Spirnak's 22-23 February visit was a significant step in moving forward Slovenia's ongoing ag-biotech coexistence debate. Spirnak met with members of the Parliamentary Agriculture Council, Senior Agriculture Ministry officials and staff wh [...] |
2006-03-03 07:54:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON ETRD SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA162 |
SLOVENIA DEMARCHED ON HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES IN SYRIA [...] (C) PolMiloff delivered reftel demarche on March 15, 2006 to MFA Human Rights Office Director Mateja Mrak Thorn. Mrak Thorn assured PolMiloff the MFA would consider the points as it coordinated a joint response with other EU member states. ROBERTSON [...] |
2006-03-15 06:56:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA171 |
SLOVENIAN ENERGY: VULNERABLE BUT DIVERSIFIED [...] (SBU) Summary: A small, mountainous country with limited natural resources, Slovenia not surprisingly relies on external sources for many of its fossil fuel energy needs. Slightly more than 55 percent of Slovenia's total energy supply comes from liquid and solid fossil fuels. An additional 15 [...] |
2006-03-20 04:42:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV ETRD ENRG SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA173 |
SLOVENIA: REACTIONS TO 2005 HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT [...] (U) SUMMARY. Reaction to the 2005 Human Rights Report was varied. The GOS reaction contrasted with last year, as MFA State Secretary Bozo Cerar called in COM to complain about passages in the Report on trafficking in persons, rape, and the government's relations with Slovenia's Muslim minori [...] |
2006-03-21 08:33:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV KPAO SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA202 |
SLOVENIA DEMARCHED ON ALLIED SUPPORT TO ENGAGE [...] (C) PolMiloff delivered reftel demarche on April 3 to MFA Security Policy staffer Zorica Bukinac Cimpersek. Cimpersek responded that Slovenia had no opposition to the beginning of an Intensified Dialogue (ID) with Georgia, but cautioned that Georgia should not be lumped in the same category as [...] |
2006-04-03 04:16:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO MARR PREL SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA214 |
SLOVENIA: ENERGY SECURITY AND HYDROELECTRIC POWER [...] (SBU) Summary: Companies within the state-owned Holding Slovenske Elektrarne (HSE) group produce over half of Slovenia's electricity. With the GOS looking for self- sufficiency in electricity, HSE's further construction of hydroelectric plants will play a key role. HSE is currently evaluatin [...] |
2006-04-07 05:23:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG ECON EINV ETRD SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA221 |
SLOVENIA STRENGTHENS ECONOMIC TIES WITH RUSSIA [...] (SBU) Summary Slovenia has long prided itself on its unique relationship with Russia, which lacks most of the political baggage collected by its eastern neighbors during years of Communist repression. While the GOS's policy declaration at the beginning of its mandate in late 2004 specifically [...] |
2006-04-12 00:53:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON RU SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA244 |
SLOVENIA DOES NOT SUPPORT VENEZUELA'S UNSC [...] (C) Polecon Chief spoke with Bojana Cipot of the MFA's UN division in the Directorate of Multilateral Affairs. Cipot agreed that Venezuela's latest behavior was cause for serious concern. She said the GOS did not believe Venezuela was a good candidate for the UNSC and the GOS would not supp [...] |
2006-04-21 05:28:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | UNSC PREL VE SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA248 |
SLOVENIA BRIEFED ON U.S. KOSOVO POLICY [...] (C) PolMiloff delivered reftel briefing on April 20 to MFA Director for South-Eastern Europe Division Davorin Senicar. Senicar thanked PolMiloff for sharing USG views on Kosovo's final status negotiations and noted that Slovenia was sincerely interested in securing peace and stability in the n [...] |
2006-04-24 01:11:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA252 |
SLOVENIA: INTERIOR MINISTER HIGHLIGHTS REGIONAL [...] (SBU) Summary: At an April 13 lunch hosted by COM Minister of Interior Dragutin Mate discussed Slovenia's regional anti-crime efforts and bilateral assistance to Macedonia; recent changes in the asylum law; latest thinking on dealing with the "erased," and the Hoehn-Saric case, a denationaliz [...] |
2006-04-25 21:41:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA257 |
SLOVENIA DEMARCHES BELGRADE ON PSI [...] (C) On April 20, PolMiloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA Nonproliferation Department Head Bostjan Jerman. On April 26, during a subsequent and unrelated demarche, Jerman confirmed that Slovenia had demarched Serbia and Montenegro (SaM) in Belgrade to seek SaM's support for the Proliferation [...] |
2006-04-26 05:40:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PHSA PREL SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA258 |
SLOVENIA SUPPORTIVE OF U.S. PRIORITIES FOR THE [...] (U) On April 26, PolMiloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA Nonproliferation Department Head Bostjan Jerman. Jerman agreed that the two meetings of the IAEA's Committee on Safeguards and Verification (CSV) that have taken place thus far were deeply disappointing and said Slovenia was largely [...] |
2006-04-26 05:41:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP AORC PARM PREL IAEA SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA272 |
SCENESETTER FOR AMBASSADOR ROBERT LOFTIS [...] (SBU) Ambassador Loftis: We welcome your visit to Slovenia to hold bilateral Pol-Mil talks. These talks will provide an excellent opportunity to: - Thank Slovenia for its robust contributions to ongoing NATO operations such as NTM-I, ISAF, and KFOR, as well as the completed Hurricane Katrin [...] |
2006-05-05 05:05:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MOPS NATO PGOV PREL PTER SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA3 |
EMBASSY LJUBLJANA D-194 2005 FINAL TN NUMBER [...] LAST 2005 TN NUMBER USED FOR LJUBLJANA D-194 ACCOUNT WAS TN-40. 2. POINT OF CONTACT FOR THIS ACTION IS CUBA L. EDWARDS COMSEC CUSTODIAN (EDWARDSCL@STATE.SGOV.GOV OR 386-1-200-5659). COLEMAN NNNN [...] |
2006-01-03 04:35:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | ACKM AMGT KRIM |
| 06LJUBLJANA30 |
SLOVENIAN PRESIDENT DRNOVSEK REQUESTS MEETING WITH [...] (C) President Drnovsek told COM January 13 that he intends to travel to New York Jannuary 18 and, if possible, to Washington January 19 to galvanize international assistance for Darfur. He will meet with UN Secretary Kofi Annan in New York and would like to meet with President Bush on the 19t [...] |
2006-01-13 09:05:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL EAID SU SI DARFR USUN |
| 06LJUBLJANA32 |
ODC SLOVENIA SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES REPORT, [...] SUMMARY: - THE IFF (S3-B-UAK) AND TALON RADIO (S3-B-UAJ) FMS CASES ARE NEARING COMPLETION. - PLANNING CONTINUES FOR THE 8-WEEK DEPLOYMENT LOGISTICS MTT SCHEDULED FOR THIS SPRING. - ODC CHIEF WILL VISIT OUR STATE-SIDE SECURITY COOPERATION PROGRAM POINTS OF CONTACT FROM 30 JANUARY TO 3 [...] |
2006-01-19 05:12:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA322 |
SLOVENIA CONSIDERING FURTHER CONTRIBUTION TO THE [...] (C) On May 24, PolMiloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA's NATO Department Head, Zorica Bukinac Cimpersek. Cimpersek said that the MFA and MOD had sent a proposal to the government (cabinet) for Slovenia to donate 50,000 Euro to the Trust Fund for NTM-I. Cimpersek stressed that this was stil [...] |
2006-05-24 22:16:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL NATO MOPS SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA323 |
SLOVENIA DEMARCHED ON MANAS AIRFIELD [...] (C) On May 24, PolMiloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA's NATO Department Head, Zorica Bukinac Cimpersek. Cimpersek thanked us for the demarche and said MFA would consider delivering a demarche to the Government of Kyrgyzstan regarding use of the Manas airfield. Post will follow up to deter [...] |
2006-05-24 22:16:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PREL SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA329 |
SUCCESSFUL U.S.-SLOVENIA POL-MIL TALKS HELD MAY [...] (S) The first joint State-DOD pol-mil talks with Slovenia took place at the Slovenian MFA May 12. Highlights included: -- SLOVENE CONTRIBUTIONS TO GWOT (paras 3-5): The Slovenes said they are increasingly willing to share the collective burden and that they intend to maintain their particip [...] |
2006-05-25 06:18:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | SECRET | MARR NATO PGOV PREL SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA34 |
SLOVENIA: PRESIDENT DRNOVSEK SEEKING TO MAKE A [...] (C) Summary: At a lunch January 13, President Drnovsek, accompanied by Presidential Advisor and former FM Ivo Vajgl, outlined for COM his proposals to galvanize international assistance for Darfur (reported reftel), his ideas on how to resolve the long-simmering Slovenian-Croatian border disp [...] |
2006-01-19 08:59:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA346 |
SLOVENIA: LTG ALBIN GUTMAN NAMED NEW CHOD [...] (U) On June 1, Minister of Defense Karl Erjavec named Lieutenant General Albin Gutman as the new Chief of Defense, to replace Major General Ladislav Lipic. The appointment officially became effective on June 2. 2. (U) Gutman,s military career began in Slovenia,s Territorial Defense Force, [...] |
2006-06-02 05:48:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PINR PREL SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA347 |
SLOVENIA WELCOMES US PROPOSAL ON IRAN [...] (U) Charge delivered reftel points to Deputy Foreign Minister Bozo Cerar who supported the USG proposal and had the MFA issue the following statement on June 1: Slovenia supports all initiatives for a diplomatic solution to the Iran nuclear issue. We welcome the proposal of the US Secretar [...] |
2006-06-02 06:10:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA349 |
SLOVENIA DEMARCHED ON NATO RESPONSE FORCE: [...] (C) On June 2, PolMiloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA NATO Department Head Zorica Bukinac Cimpersek, and on June 5 to MOD NATO/EU Department Head Aljosa Selan. Although Slovenia's resources are currently being stretched by a new set of NATO Force Goals (issued in March 2006), Cimpersek and [...] |
2006-06-05 03:21:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL NATO SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA353 |
SLOVENIA: DAS MARK PEKALA DISCUSSES TIP WITH CHIEF [...] (SBU) Summary. During his two-day visit to Slovenia May 23-24, DAS Mark Pekala met with Slovenian Chief State Prosecutor Barbara Brezigar. Brezigar welcomed the meeting and was very open about the well known deficiencies of the Slovene judicial system, including the excessive length of cour [...] |
2006-06-07 05:20:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA354 |
SLOVENIA IN ADVANCE OF THE JUNE 12 GAERC [...] (C) Polecon Chief discussed reftel points with EU Correspondent at the MFA, Peter Grk on June 7. Grk said Slovenia was supportive of the transition from OHR to an EU Representative in Bosnia and agreed with developing a timeline which would have the transition completed in mid-2007. The GOS [...] |
2006-06-07 05:21:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA359 |
SLOVENIA: DAS PEKALA AND DEPUTY FM CERAR DISCUSS [...] (C) Summary. In a May 24 meeting with EUR DAS Mark Pekala, Slovenia's Deputy Foreign Minster Bozo Cerar outlined some goals for the Center for European Perspective (CEP) and described the priorities of the Government of Slovenia (GOS) for its presidency of the European Union in the first hal [...] |
2006-06-09 03:59:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA369 |
SLOVENIA TO ADDRESS JEWISH RESTITUTION ISSUE [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Government of Slovenia (GOS) has taken several important initial steps towards addressing the issue of restitution for Jewish communal and heirless properties confiscated or nationalized after World War II. In October 2005, the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) created a new Departme [...] |
2006-06-14 00:00:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KNAR SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA378 |
THE PRIVATIZATION TWO STEP: UPDATE FROM SLOVENIA [...] (C) Summary: The Government of Slovenia (GOS) has announced it will soon begin privatizing two of its significant assets: telecommunications operator Telekom Slovenije; and the country's second largest financial institution, Nova Kreditna Banka Maribor (NKBM). Though somewhat ill-timed coming [...] |
2006-06-15 05:26:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV ETRD SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA379 |
SLOVENIA: MDA DEMARCHE RESPONSE PRIOR TO JUNE 20 [...] (SBU) Econoff delivered reftel points 13 June to Bojana Cipot at the Slovene MFA's Department for International Organizations. Cipot noted that Slovenia's representative has commented that the atmosphere in Geneva in the runup to the Conference is "not positive" and that "political will is we [...] |
2006-06-18 23:12:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PREL PHUM ICRC IS SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA386 |
SLOVENIAN ENERGY: THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING? [...] (C) Summary: Following a visit in May to Moscow by Slovene Prime Minister Janez Jansa and several members of his cabinet and a large commercial contingent (ref E), and Gazprom CEO Alexey Miller's visit last week to Slovenia, Slovene media reports a flurry of meetings, discussions, and rumors of [...] |
2006-06-22 04:14:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV ENRG ETRD SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA388 |
SLOVENIA: FINNISH PATRIA WINS 300 MILLION USD [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: On June 12, the Slovenian Ministry of Defense (MOD) announced that Finnish defense contractor Patria Vehicles had won the GOS's 330 million USD (63 billion tolar) defense contract to supply 136 8x8 armored wheeled vehicles by 2012. The only other bidder on the tender was Slov [...] |
2006-06-22 05:30:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EIND MARR MCAP PGOV SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA397 |
SLOVENIA'S ASYLUM POLICY: TOWARDS A MORE BALANCED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Mindful that refs A and B present two divergent views on Slovenia's asylum policy (representing the NGO community and GOS, respectively), the following cable seeks to strike a middle ground and explain why these two groups see things so differently. On the one side, most of the [...] |
2006-06-26 05:08:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF PGOV SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA4 |
AE LJUBLJANA REQUESTING MISSING SIGNED [...] POST IS STILL MISSING BELOW THE FOLLOWING POUCH INVOICES FROM YOUR OFFICE: #WT-10927;LJUBLJANA;C-26; 06/09/2005 #K5-1173: LJUBLJANA; C-27; 07/09/2005 #BT-421; LJUBLJANA; C-35; 11/08/2005 #KT-5718; LJUBLJANA; C-36; 11/17/2005 2. POINT OF CONTAC [...] |
2006-01-04 02:36:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | ADPM |
| 06LJUBLJANA402 |
SLOVENIA: PM JANSA AT THE HALF-WAY MARK [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Janez Jansa is nearly half-way through his first term in office. In that time we have enjoyed a much closer bilateral relationship with the Government of Slovenia (GOS) than with the previous, center-left government. He is a true believer in NATO and strong promo [...] |
2006-06-28 03:40:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA414 |
SLOVENIA: COM AND PM JANSA MEET PRIOR TO [...] No summary [...] |
2006-07-04 23:00:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON MARR ENRG SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA42 |
Government of Slovenia Publicly Defends Decision to [...] Summary: Media reaction to Slovenia's decision to contribute four soldiers to the NATO Training Mission in Iraq (NTM-I) has been intense, dominating headlines since the January 12 announcement by Foreign Minister Rupel and Defense Minister Erjavec. The opposition and its media sympathizers h [...] |
2006-01-20 07:56:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PARM PREL KPAO PINR SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA45 |
S23B-04: DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO SLOVENIA ON IRANIAN [...] (S) PolMiloff delivered reftel demarche on January 23 to MFA Security Policy Department staffer Bostjan Jerman. Jerman did not have any immediate comment other than to note that socialist Yugoslavia never had a biological weapons program. Jerman promised to investigate any cases of Iranian ci [...] |
2006-01-23 07:29:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | SECRET | PARM PREL ETTC SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA456 |
KARITAS JOINS SLOVENIA'S ANTI-TRAFFICKING EFFORT [...] (U) Pol-Econ Chief, Pol Assistant, and Pol Intern met 17 July with Alojzi Stefan, Secretary General of Karitas Slovenia to discuss Karitas' role in anti-trafficking efforts. Karitas recently won a tender from the Ministry of Labor to provide secure shelter and assistance to trafficking victims [...] |
2006-07-18 22:18:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA483 |
SLOVENIA: COM CALLS ON NEW CHIEF OF DEFENSE GUTMAN [...] (C) SUMMARY. On 20 July COM paid a courtesy call on the new Chief of Defense (CHOD) of the Slovenian Armed Forces (SAF) Lt. General Albin Gutman. Gutman, returning to the CHOD position for the second time, was well prepared and talked at length about the entire slate of U.S.-Slovenia militar [...] |
2006-07-26 04:49:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA501 |
SLOVENIA TO CONTRIBUTE TO LEBANON STABILIZATION [...] (C) Following up on the August 1 GAERC, Pol/Econ Chief met with Matej Marn, MFA Director of European Affairs on August 3. Marn said the GAERC went on for nearly 4 hours and he felt that the outcome was generally positive. He said FM Dimitrij Rupel made four key points on the need to achieve [...] |
2006-08-04 02:39:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA514 |
SLOVENIA: ELIMINATING BACKLOGGED COURT CASES AND [...] Summary: The Slovenian court system is plagued with backlogs -- over 600,000 cases are currently pending in the courts. GOS reform efforts have taken on greater urgency as the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has begun fining Slovenia for failure to guarantee the right to a trial within a [...] |
2006-08-12 08:07:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON PGOV PHUM SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA522 |
SLOVENIA: DESPITE OPPOSITION PROTESTS, NEW IRAQ [...] (U) SUMMARY. Last week leaders from the opposition parties Liberal Democracy (LDS) and Social Democrats (SD) hoped to take advantage of the slow news cycle as well as this week's scheduled deployment of Slovenia's second rotation of instructors to NATO Training Mission Iraq (NTM-I) for a quic [...] |
2006-08-14 15:21:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR NATO SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA530 |
SLOVENIA: FINDING PRACTICAL WAYS TO MATCH [...] (U) A/DCM and PolMilOff delivered Reftel demarche to Mirko Cigler, Director of the Department for North America, and Damijan Bergant, Deputy Director of the Department for International Organizations and Human Security, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on August 16. 2. (C) Cigler echoed t [...] |
2006-08-16 14:06:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PREL SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA533 |
DARFUR: SLOVENIAN AID WORKER/PRESIDENTIAL ENVOY IN [...] (U) Summary. Slovenian aid worker and sometime Presidential envoy, Tomo Kriznar, has been sentenced to two years in jail and a EUR 2000 fine on charges of entering Sudan illegally, spying and spreading lies about Sudan, according to Slovene press reports. The press has turned its scornful p [...] |
2006-08-18 10:17:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA54 |
SLOVENIA: GOS AND ITF CONSIDER CIVILIAN ENGAGEMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOS is currently exploring the idea of sending civilian reconstruction personnel to Herat, Afghanistan, where 29 members of the Slovenian Armed Forces (SAF) are currently stationed as part of a Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) within the ISAF mission. The reconstruction o [...] |
2006-01-25 07:44:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PREF PHSA SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA55 |
SLOVENIA IN ADVANCE OF THE JANUARY 30 GAERC [...] (U) Pol/Econ Chief discussed reftel points with MFA EU Correspondent Peter Grk January 25, 2006. 2. (C) Iran: Grk thought the most important item on the GAERC agenda would be Iran and what the EU-3 would have to say. He said Slovenia hoped the international community would speak with o [...] |
2006-01-26 04:55:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL |
| 06LJUBLJANA552 |
SLOVENIA'S PROSPECTIVE OFFERING TO UNIFIL: 2 TO 6 [...] (U) The desires of Prime Minister Janez Jansa and Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel to contribute to UNIFIL (reftels A and B) have now been backed up with a MoD recommendation to send between two and six personnel to support the stabilization of Lebanon. FM Rupel announced August 24 that a fina [...] |
2006-08-24 14:41:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MARR MOPS SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA553 |
SLOVENIA: MOD TO GET LESS MONEY THAN PLANNED FOR [...] (U) This is an action request, please see Action Request in paragraph 7. 2. (U) SUMMARY. The GoS's most recent budget plans for 2007 and 2008 include a defense budget of 1.65% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for 2007 and 1.81% of GDP for 2008, instead of the nearly 2% of GDP that was planne [...] |
2006-08-24 14:42:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | SECRET | NATO PGOV PINR SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA563 |
DEMARCHE DELIVERED: EU FOREIGN MINISTERS AND IRAN [...] (C) PolMilOff delivered reftel points urging Slovenia to support a strong EU message on Iran to MFA Department of Security Policy Officer Bostjan Jerman on August 31. Jerman thanked PolMilOff for the points, said that he had received something similar from the EU Troika on August 30, and prom [...] |
2006-08-31 16:26:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PARM PGOV PREL IR SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA565 |
SLOVENIA COMMITTED TO NEGOTIATED SETTLEMENT ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Government of Slovenia (GOS) supports the goals of a negotiated settlement, though it is somewhat pessimistic that current negotiations between Serbia and Kosovo will achieve a final solution by the end of 2006. The GOS also has concerns about a possible destabilizing effect o [...] |
2006-09-01 13:39:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UNMIK SI YI EU |
| 06LJUBLJANA567 |
PETROL DOES DEAL WITH LUKOIL AND HARRAH'S SHOULD [...] No summary [...] |
2006-09-01 15:11:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV ENRG PINR RU SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA57 |
SHIELD S59-05: SLOVENIA DEMARCHED ON IRANIAN [...] (S) On January 26, PolMiloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA Security Policy staffer Bostjan Jerman. Jerman noted that Slovenia had not had any dual-use transactions with the UAE in recent years but promised to update his database with the information provided. 2. (S) Jerman also raised a [...] |
2006-01-26 06:33:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | SECRET | PARM PREL ETTC SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA576 |
SLOVENIA: LOOKAHEAD TO THE IAEA BOARD OF [...] (C) Summary: PolMilOff met with MFA Department of Security Policy Officer Bostjan Jerman to discuss the recent visit of International Atomic Energy Agency Secretary General Mohamad El Baradei to Slovenia and Slovenia's upcoming Chairmanship of the IAEA Board of Governors. Jerman said that disc [...] |
2006-09-07 14:09:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PARM PINR PREL ENRG SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA577 |
SLOVENIA BIOTECH: EMBASSY HOSTS FARMER TO FARMER [...] Summary. On September 5, 2006 Embassy Ljubljana and FAS Vienna rounded out a year-long effort to create an open, science-based dialogue on agricultural co-existence in Slovenia. Our aim has been to help shape new legislation to reflect a fair and balanced approach to a sometimes emotional iss [...] |
2006-09-08 14:48:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON ETRD SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA58 |
SLOVENIA: 2006 BIOTECHNOLOGY OUTREACH FUNDS [...] SUMMARY: Slovenia is at a critical policy making juncture on agricultural biotechnology. An EU member state since May 2004, Slovenia appears to be taking a more pragmatic approach to the adoption of biotechnology than some of its neighbors. Post sees a window of opportunity to influence poli [...] |
2006-01-26 07:33:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON ETRD TBIO SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA600 |
SLOVENIA VIEWS ON BELGRADE'S COOPERATION ON ICTY [...] (C) Summary. PolEcon Chief met 13 September with Leon Marc, Head of the Division for South-Eastern Europe at the MFA to discus Ref. A points. Slovenia's primary interest is in maintaining regional stability, and a close secondary interest is existing and potential economic investments. Mar [...] |
2006-09-15 12:23:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR ICTY SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA608 |
SLOVENIA: THE BRUISED AND BATTERED REPUTATION OF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Minister of Defense Karl Erjavec has had a rocky few months battling for respect and support from the media, fellow ministers, and the general public. A series of MoD missteps, from the controversial tender for purchase of 8x8 armored vehicles, to a budget fight, and sexual ha [...] |
2006-09-21 09:16:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PGOV PREL SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA611 |
SCENESETTER: SECDEF'S SEPTEMBER 27-29 TRIP TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Mr. Secretary, we welcome your visit to Slovenia for the NATO Defense Ministerial in Portoroz, September 27-29, 2006. Since your November 2002 visit, Slovenia has assumed greater responsibility for the projection of security and promotion of democracy abroad and has emerged as [...] |
2006-09-21 12:01:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS NATO PGOV PREL PTER SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA612 |
SLOVENIA: SLOVENIAN ARMED FORCES BACKGROUNDER [...] (U) In preparation for the Secretary of Defense's visit to Slovenia for the NATO Defense Ministerial in Portoroz, September 27-29, 2006, and his bilateral discussions with Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa and Minister of Defense Karl Erjavec, please find below a current summary of Slovenia [...] |
2006-09-21 12:02:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR MOPS NATO PGOV PREL PTER SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA613 |
SLOVENIA: CENTER LEFT LEADER POSITIONS FOR VICTORY [...] (SBU) Summary: Borut Pahor, leader of Slovenia's Social Democratic Party (SD) and member of the European Parliament, has embarked on a program to raise the profile and broaden the appeal of his party. COM hosted Pahor for lunch in late August to sound him out on his future plans and vision f [...] |
2006-09-22 13:44:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA62 |
COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR LJUBLJANA CONSULAR [...] Country clearance is requested for Ljubljana Consular LES staff, Zdena Kosi, Ingrid Kocar, Marjeta Koren and Matej Debevec to visit Vienna, Austria from February 07 to February 08, 2006 to attend a joint Vienna - Ljubljana consular conference. 2. Hotel reservations has already been arrang [...] |
2006-01-30 08:25:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT CONS |
| 06LJUBLJANA63 |
SLOVENIA'S DIVERGENT VIEWS ON NATO/EU COOPERATION [...] (C) SUMMARY. The public debate in Slovenia over the government's January 12 decision to send four trainers to the NATO Training Mission in Iraq (NTM-I) has led to the crystallization of two distinct views on the relationship between NATO and EU security policy. The first sees NATO as a criti [...] |
2006-01-31 03:53:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS NATO PGOV PREL SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA646 |
DAS DICARLO ENGAGES ON REGIONAL ISSUES IN LJUBLJANA [...] (C) Summary: In October 3-4 meetings with EUR DAS Rosemary DiCarlo, Slovenia's Deputy Foreign Minister Bozo Cerar, and chief international affairs advisor to the Prime Minister, Andrej Rahten reiterated Slovenia's support for the work of both the UN Special Negotiator Ahtisaari and the Contact [...] |
2006-10-13 12:53:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID SI YI SR |
| 06LJUBLJANA66 |
SLOVENIA'S PRESIDENT SEES LEGACY IN DARFUR [...] No summary [...] |
2006-01-31 07:48:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PGOV PHUM KCRS EAID PINR SU SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA674 |
LOCAL ELECTIONS - MAYORS RUNNING THE SHOW [...] (U) Summary: With mid-term local elections just days away, Slovenia is a sea of posters and placards extolling the virtues of candidates and parties in the race for control of municipalities across the country. The most interesting race is to be mayor of Slovenia's capital, Ljubljana. Sixtee [...] |
2006-10-20 14:33:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR ECON SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA675 |
AMBASSADOR GREG SCHULTE TALKS NONPROLIFERATION IN [...] (C) Summary. During a public diplomacy visit to Slovenia October 16 US Ambassador to UNVIE Greg Schulte met with leaders and policymakers from government, media, and academia to talk about nuclear nonproliferation, US policy towards Iran and North Korea, and Slovenia's role as the Chairman of [...] |
2006-10-23 05:23:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA694 |
SLOVENIA AGAINST UNGA RESOLUTIONS [...] (U) Ambassador telephoned MFA State Secretary Bozo Cerar on October 26 to deliver reftel points. Cerar said that the Governement of Slovenia would vote against the resolution. ROBERTSON [...] |
2006-10-30 05:30:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | UNGA PHUM PREL PTER |
| 06LJUBLJANA709 |
SLOVENIA IN LINE WITH EU ON AMENDMENT TO CUBA [...] (C) COM delivered reftel demarche to MFA State Secretary Bozo Cerar on October 26. Cerar was well aware of the issues, noted his sympathy for the US position, but said that the GoS had problems with combining language critical of the Cuban human rights situation with the embargo resolution. H [...] |
2006-11-03 05:16:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNGA SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA710 |
SLOVENES: KEEP THE DOOR TO NATO OPEN [...] (C) COM spoke with MFA State Secretary (and soon to be Slovenian Ambassador to NATO) Bozo Cerar on October 26 and delivered reftel points regarding NATO enlargement and the Riga Summit. To COM's comment that the US would be supportive of Croatia's bid in 2008, Cerar reaffirmed Slovenia's supp [...] |
2006-11-03 05:17:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR NATO PREL SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA722 |
GOS: SUPPORTIVE OF RELIEF FOR IRAQ BUT STYMIED BY [...] (U) SUMMARY. The Government of Slovenia (GOS) is supportive of assistance to Iraq but regional issues prevent them from making any commitment to providing debt relief. Most of the debt owed to Slovenia, estimated at $205 million, was incurred before the breakup of the former Yugoslavia. Until [...] |
2006-11-09 12:38:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN IZ SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA723 |
SLOVENIA REPORTS NO BUSINESS WITH NORTH KOREAN [...] No summary [...] |
2006-11-09 12:38:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA724 |
SLOVENIA: PRESERVING LEBANESE PM SINIORA'S [...] (C) Pol/Econ Chief delivered reftel points MFA EU Correspondent Aljaz Arih in context of regular GAERC demarche. Slovenia does not maintain a diplomatic presence in Lebanon, however, Arih agreed unreservedly with the USG concerns and call for US/EU coordination in support of PM Siniora's gov [...] |
2006-11-09 12:38:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PREL PGOV PTER MOPS SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA725 |
SLOVENIA: BILATERAL RELATIONS WITH UKRAINE MORE [...] No summary [...] |
2006-11-09 12:41:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | NATO PREL SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA729 |
SLOVENIA IN ADVANCE OF THE NOVEMBER 13-14 FOREIGN [...] (U) Polecon Chief met on 8 November with Slovenian MFA EU Correspondent Aljaz Arih to discuss reftel points. 2. (C) Western Balkans: Arih agreed with the US view that Serbian elections had little to do with final status discussions/decisions on Kosovo. He thought a slight delay might be [...] |
2006-11-09 13:43:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA731 |
SLOVENIA: COUNTRY SPECIFIC HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) Polecon Chief met 9 November with Smiljana Knez, newly returned to the MFA from London and currently head of the Human Rights division of the Office for International Organizations to discuss reftel points. Knez said Slovenia has placed a strong priority in developing a common EU positio [...] |
2006-11-13 14:31:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KTIA SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA74 |
SLOVENIA: MOE HELPS MAKE INTERNAL CONTROL PROGRAM [...] (U) As part of the Export Control and Related Border Security (EXBS) program, Department of Commerce (DOC) subcontractor Arctur conducted a very successful two-day Internal Control Program (ICP) workshop January 31 -- February 1 in Ljubljana for Slovenian industry representatives. The workshop [...] |
2006-02-02 05:11:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | KSTC PARM PREL ETTC SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA742 |
TERRORIST FINANCE: TERRORIST FACILITATORS AND [...] (SBU) PolMiloff delivered reftel demarche on November 16 to Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Security Policy staffer Bostjan Jerman. Jerman did not have any immediate substantive reply but promised to review the information carefully and pass it along to the relevant parties at the MFA and M [...] |
2006-11-16 12:30:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | KTFN PTER ETTC PREL SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA743 |
GOS HEARS PITCH ON BLANKET END USE RETRANSFER AND [...] (U) Embassy Ljubljana delivered reftel diplomatic note asking the Government of Slovenia to consider joining the USG's blanket end use retransfer and security assurance program. A copy of the diplomatic note will be faxed to PM/RSAT on November 16. 2. (C) PolMilOff followed up on the diplo [...] |
2006-11-16 12:50:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | MASS SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA745 |
SLOVENIA: SATISFIED THAT IT IS PULLING ITS WEIGHT [...] (SBU) On November 15 PolMilOff delivered reftel demarche to Zorica Bukinac Cimpersek, a staffer in the NATO Office of the Security Policy Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. PolMilOff also acknowledged Slovenia's long-standing commitment to Afghanistan, praising the 54 troops Sloveni [...] |
2006-11-17 05:49:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MOPS NATO PINS SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA747 |
GOVERNMENT PLAN FOR DISPLACED ROMA MET WITH FIERCE [...] (U) SUMMARY. Tensions continue to rise in Slovenia as the GoS's proposal to relocate the displaced Roma family of Ambrus (reftel) was met with immediate opposition from the local community. Residents frame the dispute as a problem with law and order, not discrimination. But images of angry [...] |
2006-11-17 15:04:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA757 |
DEMARCHE ON IRAN'S PROPOSED IAEA TECHNICAL [...] (SBU) PolMiloff delivered reftel demarche on November 20 to Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Security Policy staffer Bostjan Jerman. Jerman repeated earlier statements he had made regarding the issue, promised to review the information carefully, and said he would pass it along to the relevan [...] |
2006-11-27 14:34:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | MNUC SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA758 |
ITF AND DONOR COMMUNITY RESPONSE TO ALLEGATIONS OF [...] (S) On November 22, COM attended the International Trust Fund (ITF) Advisory Board of Donors meeting in Ljubljana. Before the meeting COM delivered the points from reftel A to Slovenian ITF Director Goran Gacnik sharing, in a side conversation, USG concerns about allegations of corruption and [...] |
2006-11-28 11:44:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | SECRET | MASS MOPS PGOV PREL SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA761 |
SLOVENIA BALANCES INTERESTS IN KOSOVO/SERBIA [...] No summary [...] |
2006-11-29 09:44:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA763 |
SLOVENIAN GOVERNMENT WORKING TO RESOLVE DIFFICULT [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Government of Slovenia continues to struggle to resolve the issue of relocating 30 members of a Roma family displaced from their home in late October by protests from neighboring villagers (reftel a). Government missteps in the search for a resolution have caused several pro [...] |
2006-11-30 05:15:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA770 |
SLOVENIA ON BOARD WITH UNIFIED APPROACH TO [...] (SBU) The Government of Slovenia supports the US positions on Georgia and Moldova at the OSCE. According to Deputy Director of the Office of International Organizations, Damjan Bergant, it will be difficult to get everything we hope for during negotiations, but worth the effort to try. While [...] |
2006-12-01 12:14:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PBTS NATO OSCE SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA773 |
SLOVENIA COMMITTED TO KEEPING ITS POLICE TRAINERS [...] (C) PolMilOff delivered reftel demarche on November 30 to Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Security Policy staffer Bostjan Jerman and on December 1 to Ministry of Interior European Affairs and International Cooperation Office Head Lilijana Sipec. On December 4, Slovenian Police official Andr [...] |
2006-12-04 14:20:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KCRM SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA774 |
SLOVENIAN PRIME MINISTER'S VISIT TO IRAQ A BIG [...] No summary [...] |
2006-12-04 14:33:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SI |
| 06LJUBLJANA778 |
SLOVENIA FIRM ON CHINA ARMS EMBARGO [...] (C) Slovenia firmly supports continuing the EU China Arms Embargo and does not believe the human rights situation has improved appreciably in China to warrant a review of the policy. Polecon chief discussed reftel points with MFA EU Correspondent Aljaz Arih December 5. Arih said he expected [...] |
2006-12-05 14:20:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL PGOV PHUM SI |
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SLOVENIAN CHIEF OF DEFENSE TACKLES HOST OF HOT [...] (C) Summary. Slovenian Defense Chief Gutman told COM the MoD is working to lift caveats, eager to take on troop deployment in Kosovo, enthusiastic about USG military education programs, and committed to realizing its spending target of 2% of GDP soon. Gutman shied away from discussing defense [...] |
2006-12-07 12:56:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS MOPS PGOV PINR PREL SI |
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SLOVENIA WILL FOLLOW EU POSITION ON EMISSIONS [...] On December 1 Econoff delivered reftel points to Jozef Slana, Deputy Director General in the Aviation Directorate at the Ministry of Transportation. He stated that the Government of Slovenia (GOS) does not have an independent position on the Emissions Trading Scheme and the potential trade di [...] |
2006-12-07 15:11:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ECON SENV SI |
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SLOVENIA WELCOMES INVITATION TO JANUARY WHALING [...] Econoff met with Emil Ferjancic, Head of the International Cooperation Department at the Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning on December 6. Ferjancic stated that he understood the USG desire for pro-conservation countries to participate actively in the International Whaling Commission [...] |
2006-12-07 17:28:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIS ETRD KSCA PREL SENV IWC SI |
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SLOVENES HAVE SELECT INTERESTS IN INT'L MARITIME [...] On November 6 Econoff learned that the Government of Slovenia (GOS) would not be attending the Maritime Safety Committee meeting. When Econoff delivered reftel points on November 28 to Jadran Luin, Director General at the Ministry of Transport (MOT) in charge of Maritime affairs, Luin explaine [...] |
2006-12-08 05:10:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | ANET AORC ECPS EUN EWWT KTIA PREL IMO |
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SLOVENIA WILL FOLLOW EU POSITION ON U.S./EU AIR [...] On December 5 Econoff presented reftel points to Franc Zupanic of the Aviation Directorate at the Minstry of Transport. Zupanic thanked Econoff for presenting USG views but made it clear that the Government of Slovenia (GOS) intends to follow EU guidance on this issue. ROBERTSON [...] |
2006-12-08 13:11:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ECON EUN KTIA SI |
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ROMA SITUATION CALMS DESPITE THE RETURN OF SOME [...] (SBU) Summary. Week six of the Roma family Strojan story saw Minister of Environment Janez Podobnik named as the new government lead on Roma issues, the Environmental Inspectorate condemn the Strojans, home and recommend its demolition, and the Slovenian people giving their government mixed r [...] |
2006-12-08 13:35:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV SI |
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TIP SLOVENIA: GOS CONVICTS TRAFFICKERS [...] Summary. In 2006, the Government of Slovenia has made improving its record on trafficking in persons (TIP) a priority. Bruised by criticism in the 2006 TIP Report, the GOS re-invigorated the interagency working group on TIP, repaired its relationships with NGOs, and persisted in improving it [...] |
2006-12-19 13:05:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | SI PGOV PHUM PREL |
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