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Just before the new year, Slovenia entered into a partnership with the American NBA club Dallas Mavericks, where one of the players is our outstanding basketball player Luka Dončić.

The Guardian published its top 20 alternative global destinations worth visiting in 2020.

Slovenian Foreign Minister Miro Cerar attended the Green Group ministerial round table in Abu Dhabi in addition to other participants from Singapore, Iceland, Costa Rica, United Arab Emirates and Cape Verde. He also met the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

The Woman Engineer of the Year title for 2019 went to Aida Kamišalić Latifić, a researcher and professor at the Maribor Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, as the award ceremony was held on Wednesday in the Cankarjev Dom arts centre. Kamišalić Latifić came to Slovenia as a Bosnian war refugee in 1992.

The Slovenian Foreign Minister, Miro Cerar, attended an event held by the Institute for Strategic Solutions (ISR), where the latest edition of the institute’s annual publication, The Adriatic Journal, titled Strategic Foresight 2020 was presented.

For a number of years now, during the first week after the Christmas holidays, when school vacations take place in Croatia and many Croatians come to ski in Slovenia, two Croatian police officers helped ensure security at Slovenian ski resorts in cooperation with their Slovenian colleagues. This year, one is helping out at Rogla and the other in Kranjska Gora.

Healthy plants are a source of life, they support ecosystems and provide food.

This year marks 29 years since the watershed date of 23 December 1990, when nearly 90 percent of all eligible voters opted for an independent Slovenia in a plebiscite.

2019 is drawing to a close. Since the end of the year is a good opportunity to look back at what has been accomplished and what lies ahead for Slovenia, we have compiled a list of the key achievements in the recent period and the priorities going ahead.

One of the most influential global media giants, National Geographic, published a list on its website of the top six new cycling and hiking trails that they recommend for 2020.

Slovenian athletes are excellent ambassadors and promotors of the country and the national brand “I feel Slovenia”.

Today, Friday 19 December 2019, marks two years since the UN General Assembly, following an initiative launched by Slovenia, declared 20 May to be World Bee Day.

Last week the online edition of Canadian newspaper The Vancouver Sun, which has more than 1.3 million monthly unique visitors, published an article entitled “Five reasons to visit tiny, perfect Slovenia”.

About 250,000 persons born abroad are living in Slovenia, 38% of whom immigrated in the last ten years

On his first visit to his home country since his appointment, European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management Janez Lenarčič met leaders and participated in a round-table discussion entitled The EU and Crisis Management: Between Global Challenges and Domestic Solutions, which was prepared by the Commission Representation in Slovenia in conjunction with the Slovenian Press Agency (STA) and the Euro-Atlantic Council of Slovenia.

Slovenia launched the national test blockchain infrastructure SI-Chain, which will enable testing of existing and new blockchain applications for the public and private sector.

The American business and finance website Business Insider has published the tourist destinations for the coming year, and they include Slovenia.

Slovenia remains committed to the implementation of the arbitration ruling, said Slovenian Prime Minister Marjan Šarec in response to the viewpoint of the Advocate General of the EU Court of Justice.

Human Rights Day is celebrated all around the world on 10 December, and this year it is devoted to the efforts of young people for human rights.

On Tuesday, the BBC aired an item about waste processing in Ljubljana.