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Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Janša concludes his visit to New York by meeting UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

Prime Minister Janez Janša today concluded his visit to New York, where he had attended the 67th session of the United Nations General Assembly and held a series of talks with high representatives of the UN member states on open bilateral issues and economic development opportunities.

The Slovenian primer minister devoted the last day of his visit to New York to further promotion of Slovenia's initiative to strengthen the mechanisms of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. On the sidelines of the annual gathering of world leaders at the United Nations, he participated in this morning's ministerial meeting on »Deepening our commitment mass atrocities prevention«. He concluded his visit to New York by meeting with the UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon.

 

Prime Minister Janez Janša briefly informed the UN Secretary–General of the initiative to strengthen enforcement of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, an initiative which he had presented in his yesterday’s address to the UN General Assembly in the light of Slovenia’s future efforts in this field. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon thanked Slovenia's Prime Minister for the initiative and expressed his full support to any further steps that might be necessary in this context. They also discussed other meetings held by the prime minister over the past week and touched upon the situation in the Western Balkan region which the Secretary–General had recently visited.

 

In his statement to the press at the end of his New York visit, Prime Minister Janez Janša summarized his impressions by stressing that the initiative to strengthen the mechanisms of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide has been receiving increased support and that the talks he had had over the past week were also very positive in terms of Slovenia's new economic cooperation opportunities. Moreover, he elaborated on the contents of his interviews with foreign media, rejecting their suggestions concerning Slovenia's need for bailout. Prime Minister Janša repeated his belief that Slovenia will not need any international assistance, provided that the country implements austerity measures and measures to improve the economic environment.