The Prime Minister also addressed the foreign diplomats accredited in Slovenia and presented the country’s foreign policy priorities. Slovenia's most important short-term goal is to become a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council.

“Our agenda has two important items that I think we, as a small but open and democratic country, can represent at the global level. These items are security and solidarity,” stressed the Prime Minister in his address. Security encompasses not only military and political security, but also food and energy security. “All of this can only be achieved through collective action. In the current situation, no country, big or small, can act on its own,” he added. Regarding solidarity, the Prime Minister highlighted climate change, which he sees as a key challenge for humanity, not for individual countries. He believes that such can only be addressed effectively if developed countries show solidarity with the rest of the world.

As Mr Golob announced, Slovenia will focus all its efforts on strengthening unity within the EU: “We will look for solutions that increase the unity of the EU, and that is what I call the nucleus of Europe.” Slovenia has the same view on NATO membership. “If anything, it was last year's Russian aggression against Ukraine that demonstrated the need for collective security,” the Prime Minister said.

In his closing remarks, he stated that one of Slovenia's foreign policy priorities is the stabilisation of the situation in the Western Balkans through EU accession. It is our wish that Bosnia and Herzegovina makes great strides on the road to Europe, with Slovenia providing the necessary political and technical support.