The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Government of Slovenia is the chief foreign affairs

Foreign Affairs

Foreign Affairs is an American magazine and website on international relations and U.S. foreign policy published since 1922 by the Council on Foreign Relations six times annually...

 ministry in Slovenia

Slovenia

Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean. Slovenia borders Italy to the west, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north, and also has a small portion of...

, located in the capital Ljubljana

Ljubljana

Ljubljana is the capital of Slovenia and its largest city. It is the centre of the City Municipality of Ljubljana. It is located in the centre of the country in the Ljubljana Basin, and is a mid-sized city of some 270,000 inhabitants...

. This ministry operates 57 diplomatic offices across the world including embassies, consulates, and permanent missions. The Ministry handles Slovenia's relations within the United Nations, European Union, NATO, and the OSCE.

The current Minister of Foreign Affairs, Samuel Žbogar, has served since 21 Nov 2008. He has served in the Ministry since the late-1980's; his previous appointments include Chargé d'Affairs a.i. and First Secretary, Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia to PR China in Beijing, Deputy Representative of the Republic of Slovenia to the United Nations Security Council, and Ambassador of the Republic of Slovenia to the United States.

Ministers

Minister	Start of term	End of term
Dimitrij Rupel Dimitrij Rupel Dimitrij Rupel is a Slovenian politician.- Biography :Rupel was born in Ljubljana, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Slovenia, into a bourgeois family of former anti-fascist political emigrants from the Julian March .After receiving a bachelor's degree in comparative literature and...	May 1990	January 1993
Lojze Peterle Lojze Peterle Alojz "Lojze" Peterle is a Slovenian politician. He was the leader of the Slovene Christian Democrats from the founding of the party in 1990 until it merged with the Slovenian People's Party in 2000. Between 1990 and 1992, he was the president of the first freely elected Slovenian government, and...	January 25, 1993	October 31, 1994
Zoran Thaler Zoran Thaler Zoran Thaler is a Slovenian politician and businessman. He is a former Slovenian Foreign Minister and a former Member of European Parliament.- Political career :...	26 January 1995	16 May 1996
Davorin Kračun	July 19, 1996	January 1997
Zoran Thaler Zoran Thaler Zoran Thaler is a Slovenian politician and businessman. He is a former Slovenian Foreign Minister and a former Member of European Parliament.- Political career :...	February 27, 1997	September 25, 1997
Boris Frlec	January 1998	January 21, 2000
Dimitrij Rupel Dimitrij Rupel Dimitrij Rupel is a Slovenian politician.- Biography :Rupel was born in Ljubljana, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Slovenia, into a bourgeois family of former anti-fascist political emigrants from the Julian March .After receiving a bachelor's degree in comparative literature and...	February 2, 2000	May 2000
Lojze Peterle Lojze Peterle Alojz "Lojze" Peterle is a Slovenian politician. He was the leader of the Slovene Christian Democrats from the founding of the party in 1990 until it merged with the Slovenian People's Party in 2000. Between 1990 and 1992, he was the president of the first freely elected Slovenian government, and...	June 7, 2000	November 30, 2000
Dimitrij Rupel Dimitrij Rupel Dimitrij Rupel is a Slovenian politician.- Biography :Rupel was born in Ljubljana, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Slovenia, into a bourgeois family of former anti-fascist political emigrants from the Julian March .After receiving a bachelor's degree in comparative literature and...	December 2000	July 2004
Ivo Vajgl Ivo Vajgl Ivo Vajgl is a Slovenian politician and diplomat.-Political career:Born in Maribor, he studied at the University of Ljubljana. He was appointed foreign minister by Prime Minister Anton Rop on 6 July 2004, replacing Dimitrij Rupel, who left the Liberal Democracy of Slovenia party to join the...	July 6, 2004	November 3, 2004
Dimitrij Rupel Dimitrij Rupel Dimitrij Rupel is a Slovenian politician.- Biography :Rupel was born in Ljubljana, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Slovenia, into a bourgeois family of former anti-fascist political emigrants from the Julian March .After receiving a bachelor's degree in comparative literature and...	December 3, 2004	October 2008
Samuel Žbogar Samuel Žbogar Samuel Žbogar is a Slovenian diplomat and politician. He currently serves as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Slovenia.He was born in Postojna, but spent his youth in Nova Gorica, where he finished the local grammar school, where he was a school mate of the current Prime Minister of Slovenia Borut...	November 2008	Present