After Prime Minister Robert Golob presented the budget documents for the next two years, marked by the catastrophic floods in August, to the National Assembly members on Monday, the completion of the seven-kilometre-long water pipeline was celebrated in Prevalje on Thursday, the 53rd day after the pipes had begun to be laid. More than 12,000 people are now receiving water from their taps again, more than two months after the downpour and subsequent flooding. Floods deprived more than 10,000 people in the area of one of their inalienable, fundamental human rights: the right to safe drinking water. The Prime Minister believes that post-flood solidarity will make us stronger and more resilient – as a society, as a country and as a community.

Given the situation in the Middle East, Slovenia condemns in the strongest terms all forms of terrorism, including the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel, which caused the loss of many civilian and innocent lives. The Government has decided to contribute EUR 150,000 to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Middle East (UNRWA) this year. It reiterated its condemnation of terrorism and attacks by Hamas, expressed solidarity with Israel and called for a cessation of violence and respect for humanitarian law. Slovenia will work to prevent the escalation of the conflict and to stabilise the situation, which is the basis for a peace process that will restore hope for a two-state solution.