Slovenia’s Foreign Minister Tanja Fajon said she regretted the government’s move not to join South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the ICJ, claiming that external “pressure” had contributed to the decision.
Slovenia decided against participating due to “security risks”. While Prime Minister Robert Golob had initially been inclined to give the proposal the green light, he was ultimately swayed against doing so by national security officials, local media reported.
They reportedly cautioned that joining the lawsuit could jeopardise Slovenia’s national security, noting that many of the country’s cyber defence systems are of Israeli origin.
It’s kind of surprising because Slovenia was the top anti-Israel country in the EU
Only to certain extent, though, we didn’t do real steps (excluding Eurovision boycott) - i.e. our universities are still cooperating with Israeli counterparts (even those involved in war industry), Israelis representatives were never summoned etc., but we were always very concerned 🤷. But you are right, it’s more surprising that they caved, even based on this stance. So a lot of people wonders what was the real reason behind it. It was certainly something at government, not party, level.