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Tolerance festival brings film, theatre, talks and more

Ljubljana – The 8th House of Tolerance festival, this year entitled the House of Others, will open tonight with the screening of Exodus 91, a docu-narrative film about an Israeli diplomat sent to Ethiopia in 1991 to negotiate the airlift of 15,000 Ethiopian Jews to Israel. The screening is to be attended by the film’s director Micah Smith.

Slovenia marks 30th anniversary of Brijuni Declaration

Ljubljana – Thirty years to the day, the Brijuni Declaration was adopted, ending hostilities between Yugoslav and Slovenian forces in the ten-day independence war and suspending Slovenia’s independence activities for three months. It was the first international agreement between Slovenia and the EU’s predecessor, the European Economic Community (EEC).