The UN Security Council held a closed-door consultation on the situation in Bosnia-Herzegovina at Slovenia's request on Friday. All countries reaffirmed the importance of the Dayton Peace Agreements, supporting the country's territorial integrity and its remaining a multi-ethnic democracy, Slovenian Ambassador Samuel Žbogar has said.

Almost half of Slovenians (49.8%) polled for the private broadcaster POP TV would not support plans to raise defence spending above 2% of Slovenia's GDP. 38.6% agree with higher defence spending while 11.6% are undecided, shows a survey POP TV released on Friday evening.

A return of Russian gas to Europe may sound like an absurd idea after three years of bloody war in Ukraine, but given the latest developments, this cannot be excluded, Večer says in Saturday's commentary. It thinks there are business and political reasons to think that.

The Judicial Council will refrain from commenting on a case involving a judge who took part in several court cases of Swiss franc loans while she had a housing loan in Swiss francs herself. The council wants all procedures to be completed before commenting.

Amnesty International Slovenia and the Movement for the Rights of Palestinians have again called on the government to take action to end Israeli crimes in Palestine and genocide against Palestinians. Slovenian authorities should use all tools at their disposal, they said.

The Digital Transformation Ministry has distributed 9,869 of the 10,000 laptops made available through a controversial laptop distribution programme. The process to hand over the remaining 128 is ongoing. The project has cost some EUR 7 million so far.

The parliamentary commission of inquiry into construction of the C0 sewerage pipeline in Ljubljana questioned on Friday Uroš Brežan, who first served as environment and then natural resources minister. He believes the whole project is very important and sensitive, and should be completed. Than, an environment impact assessment should be completed.