Officials Agree Climate Change Becoming Foreign Policy Issue

Ljubljana, 9 October - The Strategic Council for Foreign Policy conducted on Tuesday a debate on the impact of climate change on international security at which participants agreed that climate change was inseparably linked with international security and becoming an important foreign policy issue.

Ljubljana Special Representative for Climate Change of the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office John Ashton at a session of the Strategic Council for Foreign Policy. Photo: Domen Groegl/STA

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Special Representative for Climate Change of the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office John Ashton at a session of the Strategic Council for Foreign Policy.
Photo: Domen Groegl/STA

Ljubljana Special Representative for Climate Change of the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office John Ashton at a session of the Strategic Council for Foreign Policy. Photo: Domen Groegl/STA

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Special Representative for Climate Change of the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office John Ashton at a session of the Strategic Council for Foreign Policy.
Photo: Domen Groegl/STA

Ljubljana Special Representative for Climate Change of the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office John Ashton at a session of the Strategic Council for Foreign Policy. Photo: Domen Groegl/STA

Ljubljana
Special Representative for Climate Change of the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office John Ashton at a session of the Strategic Council for Foreign Policy.
Photo: Domen Groegl/STA

Ljubljana Special Representative for Climate Change of the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office John Ashton at a session of the Strategic Council for Foreign Policy. Photo: Domen Groegl/STA

Ljubljana
Special Representative for Climate Change of the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office John Ashton at a session of the Strategic Council for Foreign Policy.
Photo: Domen Groegl/STA

Ljubljana Special Representative for Climate Change of the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office John Ashton (right) and Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel at a session of the Strategic Council for Foreign Policy. Photo: Domen Groegl/STA

Ljubljana
Special Representative for Climate Change of the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office John Ashton (right) and Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel at a session of the Strategic Council for Foreign Policy.
Photo: Domen Groegl/STA

Ljubljana Special Representative for Climate Change of the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office John Ashton (left) and Defence Minister Karl Erjavec at a session of the Strategic Council for Foreign Policy. Photo: Domen Groegl/STA

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Special Representative for Climate Change of the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office John Ashton (left) and Defence Minister Karl Erjavec at a session of the Strategic Council for Foreign Policy.
Photo: Domen Groegl/STA

Ljubljana Defence Minister Karl Erjavec (left), and Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel after a session of the Strategic Council for Foreign Policy. Photo: Domen Groegl/STA

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Defence Minister Karl Erjavec (left), and Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel after a session of the Strategic Council for Foreign Policy.
Photo: Domen Groegl/STA

Ljubljana Special Representative for Climate Change of the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office John Ashton (left), Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel (centre) and Defence Minister Karl Erjavec at a session of the Strategic Council for Foreign Policy. Photo: Domen Groegl/STA

Ljubljana
Special Representative for Climate Change of the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office John Ashton (left), Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel (centre) and Defence Minister Karl Erjavec at a session of the Strategic Council for Foreign Policy.
Photo: Domen Groegl/STA

Ljubljana Special Representative for Climate Change of the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office John Ashton (left) and Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel at a session of the Strategic Council for Foreign Policy. Photo: Domen Groegl/STA

Ljubljana
Special Representative for Climate Change of the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office John Ashton (left) and Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel at a session of the Strategic Council for Foreign Policy.
Photo: Domen Groegl/STA

Ljubljana From left to right: British Ambassador to Slovenia Tim Simmons, Special Representative for Climate Change of the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office John Ashton, Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel and Defence Minister Karl Erjavec at a session of the Strategic Council for Foreign Policy. Photo: Domen Groegl/STA

Ljubljana
From left to right: British Ambassador to Slovenia Tim Simmons, Special Representative for Climate Change of the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office John Ashton, Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel and Defence Minister Karl Erjavec at a session of the Strategic Council for Foreign Policy.
Photo: Domen Groegl/STA

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