Erjavec Insists Decision to Retire Rupel Not Political

Ljubljana, 3 July - Foreign Minister Karl Erjavec repeated on Wednesday that the decision to send Dimitrij Rupel, the former foreign minister who currently serves as consul general in Italy's Trieste, into retirement was not political but based on legal and professional arguments.

Ljubljana Foreign Minister Karl Erjavec at a session of the parliamentary Foreign Policy Committee Photo: Tamino Petelinšek/STA

Ljubljana
Foreign Minister Karl Erjavec at a session of the parliamentary Foreign Policy Committee
Photo: Tamino Petelinšek/STA

Ljubljana Foreign Minister Karl Erjavec at a session of the parliamentary Foreign Policy Committee Photo: Tamino Petelinšek/STA

Ljubljana
Foreign Minister Karl Erjavec at a session of the parliamentary Foreign Policy Committee
Photo: Tamino Petelinšek/STA

Ljubljana Foreign Minister Karl Erjavec at a session of the parliamentary Foreign Policy Committee Photo: Tamino Petelinšek/STA

Ljubljana
Foreign Minister Karl Erjavec at a session of the parliamentary Foreign Policy Committee
Photo: Tamino Petelinšek/STA

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