Rupel: European Future for Bolstering Balkans Security

Brdo pri Kranju, 21 September - Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel has told the opening of a two-day conference on security in the Western Balkans that giving the countries of the region a European future is the solution to the region's security issues.

Brdo pri Kranju Deputy Secretary General of the CoE Maud de Boer Buquicchio at the international conference on security in the Western Balkans. Photo: Domen Grögl/STA

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Deputy Secretary General of the CoE Maud de Boer Buquicchio at the international conference on security in the Western Balkans.
Photo: Domen Grögl/STA

Brdo pri Kranju Director of the Balkan Trust for Democracy at the German Marshall Fund of the US in Belgrade Ivan Vejvoda at the international conference on security in the Western Balkans. Photo: Domen Grögl/STA

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Director of the Balkan Trust for Democracy at the German Marshall Fund of the US in Belgrade Ivan Vejvoda
at the international conference on security in the Western Balkans.
Photo: Domen Grögl/STA

Brdo pri Kranju Former UN High Representative in Bosnia-Herzegovina Wolfgang Petritsch at the international conference on security in the Western Balkans. Photo: Domen Grögl/STA

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Former UN High Representative in Bosnia-Herzegovina Wolfgang Petritsch at the international conference on security in the Western Balkans.
Photo: Domen Grögl/STA

Brdo pri Kranju FM Dimitrij Rupel speaks at the international conference on security in the Western Balkans. Photo: Domen Grögl/STA

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FM Dimitrij Rupel speaks at the international conference on security in the Western Balkans.
Photo: Domen Grögl/STA

Brdo pri Kranju FM Dimitrij Rupel speaks at the international conference on security in the Western Balkans. Photo: Domen Grögl/STA

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FM Dimitrij Rupel speaks at the international conference on security in the Western Balkans.
Photo: Domen Grögl/STA

Brdo pri Kranju FM Dimitrij Rupel speaks at the international conference on security in the Western Balkans. Photo: Domen Grögl/STA

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FM Dimitrij Rupel speaks at the international conference on security in the Western Balkans.
Photo: Domen Grögl/STA

Brdo pri Kranju Deputy Secretary General of the CoE Maud de Boer Buquicchio (left) FM Dimitrij Rupel (middle) and former UN High Representative in Bosnia-Herzegovina Wolfgang Petritsch (right) at the international conference on security in the Western Balkans. Photo: Domen Grögl/STA

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Deputy Secretary General of the CoE Maud de Boer Buquicchio (left) FM Dimitrij Rupel (middle) and former UN High Representative in Bosnia-Herzegovina Wolfgang Petritsch (right) at the international conference on security in the Western Balkans.
Photo: Domen Grögl/STA

Brdo pri Kranju FM Dimitrij Rupel (left) chats with former UN High Representative in Bosnia-Herzegovina Wolfgang Petritsch on the sidelines of the international conference on security in the Western Balkans. Photo: Domen Grögl/STA

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FM Dimitrij Rupel (left) chats with former UN High Representative in Bosnia-Herzegovina Wolfgang Petritsch on the sidelines of the international conference on security in the Western Balkans.
Photo: Domen Grögl/STA

Brdo pri Kranju FM Dimitrij Rupel (left) arrives to the international conference on security in the Western Balkans. Anton Bebler (right) of the Euro-Atlantic Council of Slovenia looks on. Photo: Domen Grögl/STA

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FM Dimitrij Rupel (left) arrives to the international conference on security in the Western Balkans. Anton Bebler (right) of the Euro-Atlantic Council of Slovenia looks on.
Photo: Domen Grögl/STA

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