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On 9 March 2022, the successor states of the former Social Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) signed a contract in New York for the joint sale of the real estate of the former SFRY Mission to the United Nations at 854 Fifth Avenue for $50 million in the most advantageous offer.

Government Office for Development and European Cohesion Policy has approved EU funding for the project ITI KR KP between the Gosposvetska ulica street and the Bleiweisova cesta street.

On 23 December 2021, the core group of State Secretaries discussed and approved the draft of the upgraded Smart Specialisation Strategy. Interested stakeholders and opinion givers were then invited to submit their proposals, questions and positions regarding the document by 2 February 2022.

Foreign Minister Anže Logar attended the third ministerial meeting of the International Coalition for the Sahel via video conference. Minister Logar outlined that Slovenia was very concerned about the escalation and spread of violence and the deterioration of the humanitarian situation in the Sahel.

Prime Minister Janez Janša today attended the ceremony to mark the unveiling of the bust of Dr Jože Pučnik, which took place in front of the Brdo Congress Centre at Brdo pri Kranju. He was the keynote speaker at the ceremony. The participants at the ceremony were also addressed by the Minister of Culture, Vasko Simoniti. Prime Minister Janša, together with Dr Jože Pučnik’s son, Gorazd Pučnik, unveiled the bust.

Prime Minister Janez Janša today tweeted that he today had a telephone conversation with the Prime Minister of Australia, Scott Morrison.

As part of Government's visit to the north of the Osrednjeslovenska region Minister for development and European Cohesion Policy Zvone Černč visited the project Berk-Vehovar Kompoziti and the Terme Snovik spa, together with the representatives of the Municipality Vodice and Medvode.

In a documentary entitled "Dr Jože Pučnik – The 90th anniversary of his birth", Prime Minister Janez Janša, together with other partners in the process of Slovenian independence, spoke about a giant of the Slovenian political sphere – Dr Jože Pučnik. The documentary commemorating the 90th anniversary of the birth of Dr Jože Pučnik was broadcast on the first channel of Televizija Slovenija on 8 March 2022.

Through the audio-video conference, Prime Minister Janez Janša participated in the preparations for the informal meeting of the European Council in Versailles in the coming days.

On the occasion of International Women’s Day, the Prime Minister’s wife, Urška Bačovnik Janša, joined the first lady of Poland’s Agata Kornhauser-Duda campaign.

State Secretary mag. Monika Kirbiš Rojs and representatives of the Government Office for Development and European Cohesion Policy today attended the fourth regular meeting of the Development Council of the Vzhodna Slovenija cohesion region dedicated to the programming period 2021-2027. The meeting was held in the Youth Cultural Centre in Slovenj Gradec.

Today, Prime Minister Janez Janša was on a working visit in the northern part of the Osrednjeslovenska statistical region. The Government paid a visit to 11 municipalities, namely Kamnik, Komenda, Vodice, Medvode, Mengeš, Trzin, Domžale, Dol pri Ljubljani, Moravče, Lukovica and Ljubljana.

Maribor, 7 March 2022 – Minister Zvone Černač attended the event Cohesion region Vzhodna Slovenia – yesterday, today, tomorrow, which took place in Maribor and was organised by the University of Maribor. The Minister also attended a round table, organised in the frame of the aforementioned event, titled Development challenges in the cohesion region Vzhodna Slovenija. Minister Černač also visited the Maribor University Medical Centre.

On 8 March, Prime Minister Janez Janša wished all female Slovenians and female citizens of Slovenia a happy International Women’s Day.

The wife of the Slovenian Prime Minister, Urška Bačovnik Janša, addressed the participants of the conference “Iranian Women on the March to Equality and Freedom – the fight and progress of Iranian Women” which was organised by the Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI). The keynote speaker at the conference was Maryam Rajavi.

Prime Minister Janez Janša, Minister of Economic Development and Technology Zdravko Počivalšek and Minister of Infrastructure Jernej Vrtovec met in the evening with the managers of Petrol, MOL and OMV to discuss supplies and the delivery of petroleum products in the coming weeks, and measures for the prevention of supply disruptions in the event that the supply from Russia is interrupted.

State Secretary Dr Stanislav Raščan travelled to Montpellier to take part in an informal EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting in the configuration bringing together development ministers. The meeting focused on the situation in Ukraine, the geopolitical dimension of the EU's international cooperation and development policy, as well as biodiversity and food security.

In an interview with Sky News, Prime Minister Janez Janša today talked about the current situation in Ukraine and the impact of the war on Slovenia.

Foreign Minister Anže Logar attended the extraordinary meeting of the EU Foreign Affairs Council (FAC) in Brussels, led by the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell. The meeting was concentrated on the Russian military aggression in Ukraine and the assessment of the effects of the sanctions taken against the Russian Federation.

At the invitation of France, which is currently chairing the Council of the EU, State Secretary Gašper Dovžan attended the informal meeting of ministers and state secretaries for European affairs in Arles, France. The ministers and state secretaries focused on the crisis in Ukraine, the state of the rule of law in the EU and the Conference on the Future of Europe.