Before the latest elections to the National Assembly, Foreign Minister Tanja Fajon had promised Slovenia a foreign policy on the “French-German” train. However, the security crisis in Israel shows that Slovenia’s foreign policy is not only positioning itself outside the so-called core Europe, but also outside the West as such.
This is most clearly demonstrated by the case of South Africa’s lawsuit against Israel at the International Court of Justice in The Hague. The lawsuit is largely supported by third world countries, but only one of them is a European country – Slovenia.
The unwise actions of Minister Of Foreign and European Affairs, Tanja Fajon, were recently highlighted by Nejc Brence, an up-and-coming politician from the Slovenian Democratic Youth (Slovenska demokratska mladina – SDM), the youth wing of the Slovenian Democratic Party (Slovenska demokratska stranka – SDS), who wrote: “Tell me who your spend time with, and I’ll tell you who you are.” Alongside the post, he attached a screenshot from the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia, which shows the group of countries that Minister Fajon is pushing us into.
The list of countries that have expressed their support for South Africa’s case includes Bangladesh, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Comoros, Cuba, Djibouti, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Malaysia, Maldives, Namibia, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Palestine, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Slovenia, Syria, Turkey, Venezuela, Arab League, and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.
Many of the countries supporting South Africa’s action are facing allegations of human rights violations. This includes South Africa itself. Editor, journalist and political commentator Peter Jančič shared an identical screen capture as Brence, writing: “Our government is joining Islamist and leftist dictatorships that stand against the democratic countries of “core” Europe.”
The minister’s shift to the developing world
Even more significant is the list of countries opposing the lawsuit. These are largely the most developed countries, such as Australia, Austria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Guatemala, Hungary, Italy, Israel, Paraguay, the United States and the United Kingdom.
Ž. K.
