Schedule of Events for Monday, 10 October

BUDAPEST, Hungary - Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel is to launch a two-day visit to Budapest, where he is to take part Tuesday at the meeting of the regional partnership ministers with the countries of the West Balkans.

LONDON, Great Britain - The chair of the parliamentary EU affairs committee, Anton Kokalj, is to travel to London, where he will participate Tuesday at the 34th Conference of Community and European Affairs Committees of Parliaments of the European Union (COSAC).

LJUBLJANA - Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel is to meet Indian Ambassador Nanbir Singh. Photo session is scheduled at noon.

PORTOROZ - The International Nuclear Law Association (INLA) is to stage the biennial international conference Nuclear Inter Jura 2005; at 9 AM. (STA)

LJUBLJANA - Prime Minister Janez Jansa and Finance Minister Andrej Bajuk are to present the budget report and budget proposal for the next two years at the parliament's 12th extraordinary session, which is to begin at 3 PM. (STA)

PORTOROZ - Finance Minister Andrej Bajuk is to open the 5th two-day conference on taxes and finances, organised by the GV Izobrazevanje group. The conference is to start at 9 AM. (STA)

LJUBLJANA - The Association of Free Trade Unions (ZSSS) is to talk to the press about the consequences of introducing a flat tax rate in health care; at 11 AM. (STA)

LJUBLJANA - Slovenia's biggest insurance company Zavarovalnica Triglav is to present to the press its goals on the market of health insurance; at 1 PM. (STA)

TRSKA GORA - Drug maker Krka is to hold a press conference, where it is to talk about its business results; at 1 PM. (STA)

LJUBLJANA - Economics Minister Andrej Vizjak and the head of the government Institute for Macroeconomic Analysis and Development (IMAD) Janez Sustersic are to take part at a meeting on the future of Slovenia, staged by the companies Pristop and Deloitte. At 8 AM. (STA)

LJUBLJANA - Europa Donna, the Slovenian association for the fight against cancer, is to present to the press the mammotome breast biopsy system at the Ljubljana Oncology Institute; at 10 AM (STA)

LJUBLJANA - World Mental Health Day. The Institute of Public Health is to stage a round table at 4 PM. (STA)

LJUBLJANA - Press review. (STA)

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