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Four Slovenian police officers (Ivo Usar, Maribor Police Directorate, Zdravko Slavec and David Ukaj, Koper Police Directorate, and Domen Rožič, Kranj Police Directorate) were decorated by the Council of the European Union at a ceremony held in Sarajevo's Dom Policije on 22 September 2006. They have served in EUPM 2 in Bosnia and Herzegovina since 6 February 2006 and were decorated for carrying out assignments and for their achievements regarding EU security and defence policies in Bih.

The ceremony was attended by a number of important figures of public life and representatives of international community in BiH including Nataša Vodušek, Slovenian ambassador to BiH.

The Slovenian Police was represented at the ceremony by Rafael Viltužnik, Assistant Director of the Uniformed Police Directorate, and by Branko Zlobko, Head of the Security Planning and Peacekeeping Missions Section of the Uniformed Police Directorate. During their visit, they learnt more about the work of Slovenian police officers and listened to their comments. The police officers do not encounter any major difficulties in their working or residential environment. They expressed their gratitude for all logistic and other help provided by individual employees or by services of the Slovenian Police.

Prior to the ceremony the two Slovenian Police representatives met Deputy Head of EUPM 2 Ari Sarjanen at the EUPM 2 head office in Sarajevo. They were informed about work performance of the Slovenian police officers, about difficulties and work programmes as well as about the mission's human resources issue. Mr Sarjanen expressed his great satisfaction with the work carried out by Slovenian police officers and emphasised their competent work performance. The mission would like to continue the cooperation with them because they enjoy high confidence of many.

Following the ceremony at Dom Policije, the two representatives met Brigadier General Vincenzo Coppola, Head of EUPM 2 in BiH, who expressed his satisfaction with the cooperation of Slovenian police officers in the mission.

bih Usar1 From left to right: Ari Sarjanen, Branko Zlobko, Rafael Viltužnik, Ivo Usar

bih Usar2 F rom left to right: Zdravko Slavec, David Ukaj, Branko Zlobko, Rafael Viltuznik, Ivo Usar, Domen Rožič

bih Usar3 From left to right: Zdravko Slavec, Branko Zlobko, Nataša Vodušek, Vincenzo Coppola, Rafael Viltužnik, Ivo Usar


Drafted by Ivo Usar,
Head of the Slovenian Police Contingent in EUPM 2 in BiH