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ENGLISH:

UK Ambassador to Slovenia, Sophie Honey, met today with Foreign Minister Miro Cerar. They discussed the UK鈥檚 departure from the EU, on 31st January 2020 and the shared goal of further building our strong bilateral relationship.

Following the meeting the Ambassador said: 鈥淚t was good to meet with Foreign Minister Cerar at this historic moment for the UK鈥檚 relationship with the EU. We remain strongly committed to growing our close bilateral relationship. The UK and Slovenia are partners in the fields of defence and security, trade, education, science and research. Our people share strong ties, and we have many shared interests and values. In particular we agreed on the need to work more closely together on climate change.鈥�

鈥淚 am grateful to the Foreign Minister and colleagues across the Slovene government for their partnership in preparing for an orderly withdrawal of the UK from the EU, including through assuring reciprocal respect for the rights of our citizens. We agreed that citizens will continue to be a priority for both of us and that the Withdrawal Agreement protects the rights of Brits living in Slovenia and Slovenes living in the UK.

鈥淭he UK wants a positive new partnership between the UK and EU, building on our common bonds of friendship and cooperation. We look forward to constructive negotiations to that end in the year ahead.鈥�

The UK and Slovenia have a long-standing bilateral relationship. 2019 was an especially important year for bilateral ties between the UK and Slovenia: President Pahor met with Her Majesty the Queen, and launched Slovenia-UK Friendship Day with Prince Edward. Business partnerships continued to drive strong trade in both directions, which had hit nearly 拢1.5bn combined trade in goods and services 鈥� a growth rate of nearly 13% in the last three years. The volume of scientific research collaboration has approximately doubled over the past decade. Security and defence cooperation continued to strengthen, including through joint training and workshops on recruiting and retaining the best people. And the British and Slovene people continued to build deep connections, including through education, culture, and research. In 2020 the British Embassy in Ljubljana plans to continue to build on this growth, with further plans to be announced in due course.

SLOVENE:

V lu膷i jutri拧njega izstopa Zdru啪enega kraljestva Velike Britanije in Severne Irske iz Evropske unije kot dr啪ava 膷lanica, se je britanska veleposlanica Sophie Honey danes sestala s slovenskim zunanjim ministrom, dr. Mirom Cerarjem. Govorila sta o Brexitu, predvsem pa o skupnem cilju nadaljevati odli膷ne bilateralne odnose.

Veleposlanica je ob sre膷anju povedala: 鈥淰eseli me, da sem se sre膷ala z zunanjim ministrom dr. Cerarjem v tem zgodovinskem trenutku za odnose med Zdru啪enim kraljestvom in Evropsko unijo. A odnosi med na拧ima dr啪avama presegajo 膷lanstvo v evropski povezavi. Dr啪avi sta partnerici na podro膷jih obrambe in varnosti, trgovine, izobra啪evanja, znanosti in raziskav in z ministrom sva glede nadaljevanja mo膷nega partnerstva enotna. Delimo mnoge skupne interese in vrednote, pred nami so izzivi, ki jih bomo naslavljali skupaj, med njimi tudi podnebne spremembe,鈥� in nadaljevala 鈥淗vale啪na sem zunanjemu ministrstvu in slovenski vladi 拧ir拧e za sodelovanje pri oblikovanju podrobnosti v izstopnem sporazumu, predvsem v delu o zagotovitvi recipro膷nost spo拧tovanja pravic dr啪avljanov.鈥� Dodala je 拧e, da si bo v prehodnem obdobju do konca leto拧njega leta Zdru啪eno kraljestvo prizadevalo za 鈥減ozitivno novo partnerstvo z EU, ki bo temeljilo na skupnih prijateljskih odnosih in sodelovanju.鈥�

Kljub dolgoletnemu zavezni拧tvu in partnerstvu, pa je bilo leto 2019 拧e posebej pomembno za dvostranske vezi med Zdru啪enim kraljestvom in Slovenijo. Trgovinska izmenjava med dr啪avama je dosegla skoraj milijardo in pol evrov v blagu in storitvah, kar je velik napredek. V zadnjih teh letih 拧tevilke sicer ka啪ejo 13-odstotno rast, na podro膷ju medicine, fizike in raziskovanja vesolja, so se znanstvene raziskave vezane na obe dr啪avi podvojile. Turizem raste. Na diplomatski ravni se je predsednik Republike Borut Pahor sre膷al z Njenim kraljevim viso膷anstvom, kraljico Elizabeto II., kasneje pa v Sloveniji s princem Edwardom obele啪il Dan prijateljstva med Zdru啪enim kraljestvom in Slovenijo.