Several bilateral meetings were held on the sidelines of the first day of the Bled Strategic Forum (BSF).
President Borut Pahor met Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, while Foreign Minister Anže Logar and Defence Minister Matej Tonin met Jean-Pierre Lacroix, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations. Pahor and Zaev said Slovenia and entire Europe were hoping for the open issues between North Macedonia and Bulgaria to be resolved, and that the Slovenian EU presidency was an opportunity to deal with this challenge, the Macedonian press agency MIA reported. The situation in Afghanistan was the main topic of talks between Lacroix and Tonin and Lacroix and Logar.
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