Regional Partnership Is Useful, Says FM Rupel

Portorož, 14 October - Regional policy is an important element of Slovenia's Euro-Atlantic policy, Slovenian Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel said Monday in his opening address to the meeting of foreign ministers from six Central European countries making up an Austria-sponsored regional partnership. This regional partnership is useful and needs to be intensified, he told officials from Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia.