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Prime Minister Pahor: We were never given freedom, we always had to fight for it

The Prime Minister of the Republic of Slovenia, Borut Pahor, yesterday attended the state celebration to mark Slovenia’s Day of Uprising against Occupation. In his address, Prime Minister Pahor stressed the importance of the partisan uprising against the occupation forces, by which Slovenia became master of its future. “It is therefore important that present and future generations of Slovenians should retain the historical memory of this glorious act as a positive value giving strength to our patriotism and self-confidence for the challenges of new times. Today's holiday is thus a holiday of all Slovenians, irrespective of their different political and world views,” said the Prime Minister.

 

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He particularly stressed that it was important for us to accept fully our whole national history and continued that it was our political and moral obligation appropriately to address certain issues as a sovereign nation and gain wide political support for the adoption of laws on war graves and thus give a message as to what should be considered a memory and what an admonition.
 
In his address, Prime Minister Pahor touched on the current economic and financial situation and said that the crisis should be addressed with the same resistance, decisiveness and unity as were required from us by similar historical trials, if we wished to come out of the crisis stronger than when drawn into it. “It is perfectly reasonable and acceptable to devote great care to strengthening the elements of solidarity that provide the social coherence all too necessary in these hard times,” said the Prime Minister and added that, in addition to strengthened solidarity, the conditions for strengthening Slovenia’s competitiveness, sustainable development and social progress would be provided.