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	Slovenia
		The Republic of Slovenia (Slovenian: Slovenija) is a coastal sub-Alpine country in south central Europe bordering Italy to the west, the Adriatic Sea to the southwest, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north.
		During the 14th century, most of Slovenia's regions passed into ownership by the Habsburgs whose lands later formed the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Slovenians inhabiting all or most of the provinces of Carniola, Gorizia, and Gradisca, and parts of the provinces of Istria and Styria.
		Slovenia can be considered one of the economic front-runners of the countries that joined the European Union in 2004.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/s/sl/slovenia.html (950 words)

	Foreign relations of Croatia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Foreign relations were severely affected by the government's hesitance and stalling of the extradition of Croatian general Janko Bobetko to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, and inability to take general Ante Gotovina into custody for questioning by the Court.
		Related to the border in the said bay is Slovenian access to international waters which would require Croatia to cede at least some of its territorial waters to the west of Umag.
		Slovenia is disputing Croatia's claim to establish an economic section of the Adriatic, requiring direct access to the international waters.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Foreign_relations_of_Croatia (2011 words)

	Foreign relations of Slovenia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Slovenia is engaged with 29 countries in bilateral military exchange--most actively with the United States--and in regional cooperative arrangements in central and southeast Europe; it participates in or intends to contribute forces for five major multinational regional peacekeeping bodies;
		From May to July 1997, Slovenia contributed to Operation ALBA in Albania with a 25-person medical unit, which was well-received and commended by the Italian commander.
		Slovenia's bilateral relations with its neighbors are generally harmonious and cooperative.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Foreign_relations_of_Slovenia (1266 words)

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	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Category:Foreign_relations_by_country (86 words)

	Slovenia (08/05)
		Slovenia is situated at the crossroads of central Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Balkans.
		Nearly two-thirds of Slovenia’s overall trade is with the EU and the vast majority of this is with Germany, Italy, Austria and France.
		Slovenia and Croatia most recently made an effort to improve relations during a joint government session on June 10, 2005 where three bilateral agreements were signed: Joint Statement on Avoiding of Conflicts, Bilateral Agreement on Avoiding Double Taxation, and an establishment of a joint Historical Commission for the border issue.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/3407.htm (6203 words)

	EUROPA - Enlargement : Candidate Country - Slovenia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Slovenia's younger generation of winegrowers on the very borders with Italy have developed a seriously lucrative export business for their high-quality, high-tech and high-price white wines.
		Slovenia is among the countries with the smallest public deficit which, despite having increased in 2000, stands at just 25.8% of GDP, caused for the first time by foreign rather than domestic debt.
		A referendum on EU accession was held on March 23, 2003, and 90% voted in favour of accession to the EU (the turnout was 60%).
	europa.eu.int /comm/enlargement/slovenia (2216 words)

	Slovenia Business Week (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Slovenia attended a bilateral review of its legislation in the field of foreign relations to determine its concordance with the acquis of the European Union.
		Slovenia's delegation and the European Commission's enlargement group officials were closely examining Slovenia's legislation from a number of aspects in the field, including the accessibility of markets, export, operation in the WTO, instruments of trade, implementation of sanctions on investments and mutual recognition of agreements.
		Slovenia is preparing suitable umbrella legislation to regulate the exports of goods for dual use (such as drugs, arms and poisons) to harmonise with EU standards, and has asked the EU for expert advice.
	www.gzs.si /SBW/head.asp?idc=564 (419 words)

	GeographyIQ - World Atlas - Europe - Slovenia - Foreign Relations
		Slovenia is engaged with 29 countries in bilateral military exchange--most actively with the U.S.--and in regional cooperative arrangements in central and southeast Europe; it participates in or intends to contribute forces for five major multinational regional peacekeeping bodies.
		Slovenia is a member of Central European Nations Cooperation on Peacekeeping (CENTCOOP)--with Austria, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Croatia, and Switzerland, with Ukraine and Czech Republic as observers--under which a combined infantry peacekeeping unit was formed March 1998.
		Slovenia's 10th motorized infantry battalion, established in 1996 as its primary 'out-of-country' operation unit, is fully operational with one company deployed to SFOR in January 2003.
	www.geographyiq.com /countries/si/Slovenia_relations_summary.htm (1047 words)

	NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF SLOVENIA PRESENTS CREDENTIALS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Kirn enjoyed a distinguished career in the Slovenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 1996 to 2000, he was State Under-Secretary of the Ministry and Director of its Multilateral Relations Department. He held the latter post for the first time from 1991 to 1992.
		Kirn served as Minister Counsellor at the Slovenian Embassy to the Czech Republic; and from 1986 to 1991, as Assistant Chairman of the Committee for International Relations of Slovenia.
		Kirn has also held positions on the Committee for International Relations of Slovenia (1984-1986), at the Yugoslav Embassy in Burma (1980-1984), and on the Committee for Foreign Economic Relations of Slovenia (1978-1980).
	www.un.org /News/Press/docs/2002/BIO3434.doc.htm (170 words)

	Slovenia Business Week (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Slovenia is thus expected to sign the Accession Treaty on 16 April 2003 in Athens.
		Touching on Slovenia's bid to join NATO, the foreign minister claimed that a NATO invitation was not as self-evident as some may have thought, since it required a great deal of lobbying with the member states.
		Slovenia and Austria have established an atmosphere of partnership, relations with Italy are solid, while those with Hungary are traditionally good.
	www.gzs.si /SBW/head.asp?idc=12078 (554 words)

	Ten Years of Slovenia's Foreign Policy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Slovenia had applied for the admission to the CSCE (which was later reformed as the OSCE) on 9 January 1992 (even before it was internationally recognised), and was accepted on 24 March 1992.
		Slovenia is a signatory to all the instruments of this organisation; it participates in its various missions in the fields of human rights, democratisation, civil police, etc.; and it presided over the OSCE Security Cooperation Forum in March 1998.
		Slovenia is an active and committed member which is constructively participating in shaping and carrying out the activities of the Council of Europe; several international meetings and conferences organised by this institution have been held in Slovenia.
	www.gov.si /mzz/eng/foreign_poli/tenth_anniversary_of_the_appo.html (6092 words)

	Foreign relations of the Republic of Macedonia - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The sanctions were lifted September 1995 after the Republic of Macedonia changed its flag to an eight-ray sun and not the Vergina Sun, changed the constitution to state explicitly that "The Republic of Macedonia has no territorial pretensions towards any neighboring state".
		The two countries agreed to normalize relations but the state's name remains a source of local and international controversy.
		Although most criminal activity is thought to be domestic and not a financial center, money laundering is a problem due to a mostly cash-based economy and weak enforcement (no arrests or prosecutions for money laundering to date).
	open-encyclopedia.com /Foreign_relations_of_the_Republic_of_Macedonia (758 words)

	Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Europe Division - Slovenia Country paper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Slovenia is the wealthiest of the former Yugoslavia's six republics - the most recent GDP figures are similar to those for other east European countries coping with transition to market economies.
		Slovenia is a member of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe and the Council of Europe, the European Free Trade Area, and the Central European Free Trade Area (CEFTA).
		Relations with Austria are good, but because of the presence of a sizeable Slovenian-speaking minority in the Austrian Province of Carinthia, there have been some concerns over the politics of the Nationalist Austrian Freedom Party.
	www.mfat.govt.nz /foreign/regions/europe/countrypapers/slovenia.html (1502 words)

	NATO Partnerships
		Tit Turnek, Minister of Defense of the Republic of Slovenia.
		From Madrid to Washington Slovenia's quest for membership Ambassador Ernest Petric State Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia.
		Address by the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia, H.E. Zoran Thaler at the Spring Meeting of NATO Foreign Ministers in Sintra, Portugal.
	www.nato.int /pfp/si/slovenia.htm (368 words)

	Slovenia - FreeEncyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Republic of Slovenia (Slovenian Slovenija) is a littoral and pre-Alpine country in the South of Central Europe bordering the Adriatic Sea, Italy, Austria, Hungary and Croatia.
		Slovenia's ethnic groups represent Slovenians (89%), Croats, Serbs, Bosnians[?] and other nationalities of the former Yugoslavia (10%) and the ethnic Hungarian and Italian minorities (0.5%).
		Slovenia's learned men include physicist Jožef Stefan and linguist Franc Miklošič.
	openproxy.ath.cx /sl/Slovenia.html (819 words)

	Bilateral relations between Poland and Slovenia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Significant here was an absence in relations between Poland and Slovenia of any controversial issues that might generate tensions or conflicts.
		Relations between the two countries were boosted to a very high level in 1998, when Prime Minister Buzek paid a official visit to Ljubljana in March and delivered an address to Slovenian Parliament.
		The President of Slovenia, Milan Kucan, visited Poland (in October 1998)In 1999 two official visits on the high level were paid: in February the Prime Minister of Slovenian Government - Janez Drnovšek's to Warsaw and in June the Speaker of the Polish Sejm (lower chamber of Parliament) Mr Maciej Plazynski's to Ljubljana.
	www.poland-embassy.si /eng/politics/bilateral.htm (378 words)

	CURRICULUM VITAE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Kirn served as the Permanent Representative of the Republic of Slovenia to the Organisation for Security and Co - operation in Europe (OSCE) in Vienna, from 2000 to 2002.
		Kirn was The State Under-secretary and Head of The Multilateral Relations Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia in Ljubljana (1996-2000).
		Kirn was born in Trbovlje, Slovenia, on February 23, 1952 and is married with two children.
	www.sigov.si /mzz/dkp/mny/eng/curriculum_vitae.html (296 words)

	Slovenia Bilateral relations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Contributing factors to this are German support for Slovenia's quest for independence, a comprehensive advisory and support programme to promote democracy and market reform (TRANSFORM programme), our support for Slovenia's accession to the EU and NATO as well as the growing volume of trade between the two countries.
		When Slovenia joined NATO and the EU in the spring of 2004, the partnership between our two nations took on a new quality.
		Slovenia has a considerable trade surplus with Germany, which is the third largest foreign investor in Slovenia after Austria and France.
	www.auswaertiges-amt.de /www/en/laenderinfos/laender/laender_ausgabe_html?type_id=14&land_id=155 (408 words)

	English News Sources on Slovenia
		Slovenia Business Week is published only on the internet, and is composed primarily of STA reports concerning business and the economy, though foreign relations and cultural events also appear from time to time.
		Slovenia Bulletin was added to the website in September 2001 and sets itself apart from the glossier English-language sources of information about Slovenia by presenting the news as reported by the Slovene-language media, and not by the Slovene government.
		As far as its coverage of Slovenia goes, BBC Monitoring produces about 10 news items daily, composed primarily of translations of news items from Radio Televizija Slovenia and STA, though translations of items from other Slovene-language media are also included from time to time, as well as original reporting.
	geocities.com /ljubljanalife/Englishnews.htm (1727 words)

	Pravda.RU Russian Premier Meets Slovenia's Foreign Minister (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Relations between Russia and Slovenia have been developing steadily of late, Russian Premier Mikhail Kasyanov said Friday as opening a meeting with Dimitrij Rupel, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Slovenia.
		Russia and Slovenia will sign a bilateral partnership declaration during President Vladimir Putin's upcoming visit, Dimitrij Rupel, Slovene Minister of Foreign Affairs, said to RIA Novosti during a news conference at the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs press centre.
		The upcoming visit to Slovenia of Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to bring forth a bilateral cooperation declaration, Slovenia's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dimitri Rupel, told a news conference Friday.
	english.pravda.ru /world/2001/07/06/9518.html (1722 words)

	Foreign Affairs - Home
		Foreign governments want control of the Internet transferred from an American NGO to an international institution.
		Germany's recent elections have resulted in a changing of the political guard in Berlin, with one of the casualties being the charismatic foreign minister Joschka Fischer.
		Hurricane Katrina's ravages in the Gulf Coast earlier this month have left many foreign policy experts questioning the Department of Homeland Security's capacity to prevent or limit the damages of a large-scale terrorist attack on the United States.
	www.foreignaffairs.org (569 words)

	GeographyIQ - World Atlas - Europe - Slovenia - Relations with U.S.
		U.S. trade (imports and exports) with Slovenia for 2002 was EUR 630 million.
		President Bush met with then-President Milan KuÃ¨an and then-Prime Minister Janez DrnovÅ¡ek in Slovenia during the June 2001 summit between President Bush and Russian President Putin.
		More than geographically, Slovenia is a bridge from developed Europe into the Balkans, the area of the continent that poses the greatest diplomatic and military challenges.
	www.geographyiq.com /countries/si/Slovenia_us_relations_summary.htm (742 words)

	Council on Foreign Relations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Mike Mandelbaum has gone on to teach at Harvard, to be a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, to write many books of considerable importance about U.S. foreign policy, to be wooed by various administrations to come join them and advise them directly.
		The elite foreign policy groups, curiously enough, which are so forward leaning in most issues are very hostile to this issue.
		This is the core theme of the administration's foreign policy and it should not be misstated.
	www.bits.de /NRANEU/docs/ExpandingNATO.htm (7651 words)

	Prepared Testimony for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee regarding the Moscow Treaty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		They looked at his agenda—his promise to withdraw from the ABM Treaty; his commitment to build defenses to protect the U.S., its friends and allies from ballistic missile attack; his determination to strengthen the NATO Alliance by making new allies of old adversaries—and predicted that the U.S. and Russia were on a collision course.
		Far from causing a "deep chill" in relations, the U.S. withdrawal from the ABM Treaty was greeted in Russia with something approximating a yawn.
		If Russia hopes to attract foreign capital, or retain her most gifted citizens, she must provide them with a climate of economic opportunity and political freedom—a climate that is the critical foundation on which prosperity, cultural creativity and national greatness are built.
	www.defenselink.mil /speeches/2002/s20020717-secdef.html (3715 words)

	Välisministeerium : Estonian Foreign Minister sees potential in economic relations with Slovenia
		Economic co-operation between Estonia and Slovenia needs enlivening, but there are many opportunities for this, Estonian Foreign Minister Kristiina Ojuland found at a meeting with her counterpart Dimitrij Rupel in Lubjana.
		The Slovenian foreign minister stressed that the economies of the two countries fit well together, rounding out one another and offering numerous opportunities for efficient co-operation.
		The parties stated that both Estonia and Slovenia have changed from recipients of international aid into donors and affirmed the importance of the constructive co-operation of the two donor states.
	www.vm.ee /eng/kat_138/4488.html (291 words)

	Common Foreign and Security Policy and External Relations
		Foreign policy actions of the European Community: the politics of scale, Boulder: L. Rienner, 1989.
		Foreign policy of the European Union: from EPC to CFSP and beyond.
		Foreign economic relations of the European Community: the impact of Spain and Portugal.
	www.mun.ca /ceuep/external_relations.html (10254 words)

	JS Online: Foreign relations alter NBA draft
		As teams make their selections, several foreign players with homelands ranging from Spain to Italy to Brazil and points beyond are expected to be added to the ever-growing number of international players in the league.
		Two other highly regarded foreign players are Nikoloz Tskitishvili, a 7-foot, 225-pound center from the Republic of Georgia; and Maybyner "Nene" Hilario, a 6-11, 260-pound forward from Brazil.
		Other highly regarded foreign players are Bostjan Nachbar, a 6-9 forward from Italy; Jiri Welsch, a 6-7 guard from Slovenia; and Luis Scola, a 6-9 forward from Spain.
	www.jsonline.com /sports/buck/jun02/53188.asp (1054 words)

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