Slovenia's representative in the UN Security Council Samuel Žbogar said during a debate on the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) requested by Jordan in New York on Wednesday that the agency was a factor of stability in the Middle East region and its workers the overlooked heroes of the war in Gaza.
The supervisory board of the Slovenian Press Agency (STA) appointed on Wednesday the agency's former editor-in-chief Barbara Štrukelj interim director. She will be filling in for two months, as outgoing director Igor Kadunc is leaving in mid-May and the newly appointed director Mojca Prelesnik is set to take over on 18 July.
Commenting on the results of the general elections in Croatia, Dnevnik says that the high turnout brought hope to the SDP, whose candidate was President Zoran Milanović. But in fact it again turned out that the HDZ won in a landslide and that no other party can prevent it from forming a government. Only its own internal problems can.
The newspaper Delo comments on the visit by Slovenian Foreign Minister Tanja Fajon to Beijing, saying in its front-page commentary on Thursday that meetings of European leaders with Chinese officials are proof that the EU is realistic: raising human rights concerns on the one hand and hoping to make business on the other.
The National Assembly adopted on Wednesday the government-sponsored changes to the Medical Services Act which expand the range of services doctors must provide during strikes. The motion was passed with 49 votes in favour and 26 against.
It will be rather cloudy in Slovenia on Thursday with localised showers in particular in the afternoon. Northerly winds will blow in some parts of the country and a weak bora in Primorska in the west.
The election of Matjaž Han as the new head of the Social Democrats' (SD) at Saturday's congress is just one indication that former President Milan Kučan is losing power, while Ljubljana Mayor Zoran Janković is increasingly starting to draw strings in national politics, the weekly Demokracija says in its commentary on Thursday.