Prime Minister Miro Cerar decided to cancel a meeting with his Croatian prime minister scheduled for next week in Zagreb after Andrej Plenković's comments on the Slovenian-Croatia border arbitration in his address to the UN General Assembly in New York on Thursday. Cerar said Slovenia nevertheless remained open for dialogue.

Prime Minister Miro Cerar stressed the importance of respect for international treaties, decisions of international courts and international law as he addressed the general debate of the UN General Assembly in New York on Thursday.

IMAD, the government's macroeconomic forecaster, has strongly upgraded Slovenia's GDP growth forecast. This year, the economy is projected to expand by 4.4%, up 0.8 points from the spring forecast, while the projection for 2018 was revised upwards by 0.7 points to 3.9%, IMAD said on Thursday.

Slovenia's consumer confidence index has risen to a record high, increasing by one percentage point from August and by eight points from September 2016, show fresh figures from the Statistics Office.

Slovenia's Ambassador to Macedonia Milan Jazbec has withdrawn from the presidential race because he believes he will not be able to collect the required 5,000 voter signatures within the deadline, Jazbec's campaign team announced on Thursday.

Before addressing the general debate of the 72nd UN General Assembly today, Prime Minister Miro Cerar held bilateral talks with Miroslav Lajčak, the president of the General Assembly, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Kosovo President Hashim Thaci and discussed Slovenia's development agenda 2030 at the Bloomberg Global Business Forum.