7. 5. 2021
Yesterday, Minister of Defence Matej Tonin, MSc, attended a meeting of the EU Foreign Affairs Council in Defence Ministers’ configuration. The main topic of the ministers discussion was the current state of preparation of the Strategic Compass, with an emphasis on its first pillar - crisis management.
Initially, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell reported on his recent visit to Africa, in particular on the situation in Mozambique and the Sahel. High Representative Borrell also reported on the escalating situation in Ukraine, where the tense situation on the eastern border between Ukraine and the Russian Federation and in the illegally annexed Crimea persists. The ministers endorsed the EU s efforts to resolve the crisis against Ukraine, as well as the stabilization of the situation in the Sahel.
State Secretary Stanislav Raščan today held a video conference with the State Secretary for Global Affairs and Diplomatic strategies of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Romania, Cornel Feruţa.
27. 1. 2021
Minister Jože Podgoršek today attended the 13th Berlin Agriculture Ministers’ Conference at the Global Forum For Food And Agriculture (GFFA). The GFFA, which began on Monday and concluded with today’s ministerial conference, features a series of political and professional events, discussions and meetings that take place every year on the fringes of the Green Week fair. The ministerial conference welcomed almost 100 agriculture ministers and their deputies from around the world along with the highest representatives of all major international institutions and international NGOs. The forum was hosted by the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture with the central topic of How to Feed the World in Times of Pandemics and Climate Change?