FM Rupel Calls for Speedy Developments Regarding EU Treaty

Brussels, 23 July - Slovenia wants the process of drafting the new reform EU treaty to be carried out as soon as possible as reaching agreement on the document will greatly facilitate the country's approaching spell at the helm of the EU, Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel said in Brussels on Monday.

Belgium, Brussels Slovenian and Italian foreign ministers, Massimo d'Alema (left) and Dimitrij Rupel, on the sidelines of EU foreign policy chiefs' meeting. Foto: Thierry Monasse/STA

Belgium, Brussels
Slovenian and Italian foreign ministers, Massimo d'Alema (left) and Dimitrij Rupel, on the sidelines of EU foreign policy chiefs' meeting.
Foto: Thierry Monasse/STA

Belgium, Brussels Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel (first from the right) talking to his Austrian, German and Luxembourg counterparts, Ursula Plassnik (next to him), Frank-Walter Steinmeier (second from the left) and Jean Asselborn as EU foreign ministers gather in Brussels. Photo: Thierry Monasse/STA

Belgium, Brussels
Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel (first from the right) talking to his Austrian, German and Luxembourg counterparts, Ursula Plassnik (next to him), Frank-Walter Steinmeier (second from the left) and Jean Asselborn as EU foreign ministers gather in Brussels.
Photo: Thierry Monasse/STA

Belgium, Brussels Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel talking to his Austrian counterparts Ursula Plassnik as EU foreign ministers gather in Brussels. Photo: Thierry Monasse/STA

Belgium, Brussels
Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel talking to his Austrian counterparts Ursula Plassnik as EU foreign ministers gather in Brussels.
Photo: Thierry Monasse/STA

Belgium, Brussels Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel talking to his Austrian and Cypriot counterparts, Ursula Plassnik (centre) and Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis as EU foreign ministers gather in Brussels. Photo: Thierry Monasse/STA

Belgium, Brussels
Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel talking to his Austrian and Cypriot counterparts, Ursula Plassnik (centre) and Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis as EU foreign ministers gather in Brussels.
Photo: Thierry Monasse/STA

Belgium, Brussels Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel meets new Cypriot Foreign Minister Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis as EU foreign ministers gather in Brussels. Photo: Thierry Monasse/STA

Belgium, Brussels
Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel meets new Cypriot Foreign Minister Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis as EU foreign ministers gather in Brussels.
Photo: Thierry Monasse/STA

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