FM Regrets Slovenia Snubbed in EU Foreign Service Appointments

Ljubljana/Brussels, 15 September - Foreign Minister Samuel Zbogar expressed on Wednesday deep disappointment with the EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton failing to appoint any of "the two excellent Slovenian candidates" in the first round of appointments to the EU's emerging foreign service.

Ljubljana
Foreign Minister Samuel Zbogar speaks to the press ahead of the emergency session of the parliamentary Foreign Policy Committee on Slovenia's military presence in Afghanistan
Photo: Tamino Petelinsek/STA

Ljubljana
Foreign Minister Samuel Zbogar speaks to the press ahead of the emergency session of the parliamentary Foreign Policy Committee on Slovenia's military presence in Afghanistan
Photo: Tamino Petelinsek/STA

Ljubljana
Foreign Minister Samuel Zbogar speaks to the press ahead of the emergency session of the parliamentary Foreign Policy Committee on Slovenia's military presence in Afghanistan
Photo: Tamino Petelinsek/STA

Ljubljana
Foreign Minister Samuel Zbogar speaks to the press ahead of the emergency session of the parliamentary Foreign Policy Committee on Slovenia's military presence in Afghanistan
Photo: Tamino Petelinsek/STA

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