FM Rupel: Statehood Needs to Be Maintained Or Else It Can Become Threatened

Koper, 25 October - Statehood only exists in the initial phase, afterwards it needs to be maintained, otherwise it can become threatened, Slovene Foreign Minister said Thursday at a conference, which is part of celebrations marking the tenth anniversary of Slovenia's independence, and marks specifically 26 October, the day that the last soldier of the Yugoslav Peoples' Army left the Slovene soil.