ANKARA - Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa will pay a formal visit to Turkey upon an invitation of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Jansa will be in Turkey on November 21st and debate ways to further improve Turkish-Slovenian relations and regional and international matters with Turkish executives.
Accompanied by high-level officials and businessmen, Jansa will address Turkish-Slovenian Business Council with Prime Minidter Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
President Abdullah Gul and Turkish Parliament Speaker Koksal Toptan will receive Jansa during his stay in Turkey.
Turkey and Slovenia are expected to sign agreements on cooperation in areas of health, medicine, agriculture, information and communication technologies on the sidelines of Jansa's working trip.
-SLOVENIA TO BECOME EU PRESIDENT ON JANUARY 1ST-
Slovenia will take over the presidency of the European Union on January 1st, 2008 -- the first country to be so honored among the ten members inducted into the EU in 2004.
A magazine named "Slovenian Business Report" said the agenda for the presidency is ambitious, but the complex political reality of the Union will represent huge challenges for the young democracy.
In an article titled "Noble Goals and Harsh Reality", the magazine said the stated goals of Slovenia's EU presidency are not modest.
"They are similar to those of the Portuguese and German presidencies," the magazine wrote.
According to the magazine, the Lisbon strategy (which seeks to position the EU as a leader of the developed world), the future of the European constitution, a focus on enlargement and energy issues are the difficult topics that Slovenia has to deal with.
The magazine said the reality of natural resource dependence came knocking on the EU's door in recent years, when spiking prices made it painfully apparent that Europe is increasingly dependent on Russian gas.
"Slovenia will thus strive to develop a common European Energy Policy aimed at providing a sustainable and durable flow of natural gas and electric power throughout the EU," it said.
The magazine also said Slovenia will focus on the future of upgrading the Schengen system -- a topic connected to the enlargement of the Union, which Slovenia is heavily in favor of.