Schedule of Events for Wednesday, 14 March

LJUBLJANA - Visiting Iranian Foreign Minister Manuchehr Motaki is to hold talks with President Janez Drnovsek (11 AM), Prime Minister Janez Jansa (noon) and his host and counterpart Dimitrij Rupel (9:45 AM). Motaki and Rupel are to speak to the press after Motaki's meeting with Jansa. (STA/PHOTO)

LJUBLJANA - Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel is to meet at 11 AM Srdjan Kerim, Macedonia's candidate for the president of the UN General Assembly for the period between June 2007 and June 2008. Kerin is also to hold talks with Prime Minister Janez Jansa at 1 PM. (STA/PHOTO)

LJUBLJANA - Central bank Banka Slovenije is to hold a seminar on the challenges facing Slovenia after the euro adoption. The event will be carried out by the visiting delegation of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). (STA/PHOTO)

LJUBLJANA - The parliamentary Domestic Policy, Public Administration and Justice Committee is to meet at 9 AM to debate the bill on the Roma and the proposed amendments to the civil servants act.

LJUBLJANA - Simobil, Slovenia's second largest mobile provider, is to present its 2006 business result at a news conference scheduled for noon. (STA/PHOTO)

SLOVENJ GRADEC - The ministers for the environment and transport, Janez Podobnik and Janez Bozic, are to meet at 11 AM mayors of municipalities in the regions of Korosko and Savinjsko-Salesko to discuss plans for the Third Development Axis, a transport link between northeastern and southeastern Slovenia. A news conference is scheduled for 12:30 PM.

LJUBLJANA - Marko Strovs, state secretary at the Ministry of Labour, the Family and Social Affairs, is to issue at 11 AM a statement prior to a protest of the five largest Slovenian trade unions scheduled for Thursday.

LJUBLJANA - A national panel on the health of children and the young will be addressed by Health Minister Andrej Brucan. As part of the panel, a tripartite commitment between the health, labour and education ministries will be signed on drafting a two-year action plan for improving the health of the young.

LJUBLJANA - Pasadena Publisher will present at 5:30 PM a book by economist Mico Mrkaic entitled "To so bile svete krave" (Those Were Sacred Cows) and hold a panel with economists, researchers and editors.

LJUBLJANA - A panel on Slovenian literary translators and the enforcement of their copyrights is to be held at 7 PM.

LJUBLJANA - Press review. (STA)

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