Schedule of Events from 8 to 14 January

MONDAY, 8 January
        LJUBLJANA - Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel will hold separate meetings with German Ambassador Hans-Joachim Goetz, Ljubljana Mayor Zoran Jankovic, and Rudi Pavsic, the president of the Slovenian Cultural and Economic Association, an organisation of the Slovenian minority in Italy and Drago Stoka, the head of the Council of Slovenian Organisations.
        RIBNICA - Transport Minister Janez Bozic and Environment and Spatial Planning Minister Janez Podobnik are to meet mayors of several municipalities to discuss road and motorway construction programmes.
        LJUBLJANA - Public broadcaster TV Slovenija will unveil new image of its news shows and new hosts.

TUESDAY, 9 January
        NOVA GORICA - Italian Foreign Minister Massimo D'Alema is to arrive for a two-day official visit to Slovenia, on invitation by his Slovenian opposite number Dimitrij Rupel. The pair is expected to meet representatives of the Slovenian minority in Italy and Italian minority in Slovenia.
        LJUBLJANA - The government commission on concealed mass graves will outline its activities so far and plans for 2007 at a news conference.

WEDNESDAY, 10 January
        LJUBLJANA - Italian Foreign Minister Massimo D'Alema is to hold talks with his Slovenian counterpart Dimitrij Rupel and Prime Minister Janez Jansa.
        ROME, Italy - Public Administration Minister Gregor Virant is to pay a one-day working visit to Italy.
        LJUBLJANA - A joint meeting by the parliamentary EU affairs and foreign policy committees is to discuss Germany's EU presidency programme.
        LJUBLJANA - The Ljubljana funicular will be officially opened.
        LJUBLJANA - Slovenia's Union Olimpija are to take on Spain's Unicaja Malaga in round 11 of the Euroleague, Europe's strongest basketball competition.

THURSDAY, 11 January
        LJUBLJANA - The cabinet is to hold a regular weekly session.
        LJUBLJANA - Logistics group Viator&Vektor is to unveil its plans for 2007.

FRIDAY, 12 January
        NOVA GORICA - Environment and Spatial Planning Minister Janez Podobnik and Higher Education, Science and Technology Minister Jure Zupan are to visit the University of Nova Gorica.

SATURDAY, 13 January
        LJUBLJANA - Slovenian women handball champions Krim Mercator are to take on Russian Dinamo Volgograd
in the second round of the European Handball Champions League, group A.

SUNDAY, 14 January
        DRESDEN, Germany - A three-day informal meeting of EU interior and justice ministers is to begin.