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Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa formally welcomed Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Slovenian capital Ljubljana on Monday.
Turkey's EU Minister Egemen Bagis, Economy Minister Zafer Caglayan, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, Environment & Urbanization Minister Erdogan Bayraktar, Energy & Natural Resources Minister Taner Yildiz, Interior Minister Idris Naim Sahin, Finance Minister Mehmet Simsek and executives from Justice & Development (AK) Party also participated in the welcoming ceremony.
Later in the day, Erdogan will hold meetings with several Slovenian officials and receive statesman of the decade award from International Middle East and Balkans Studies Institute (IFIMES).
Erdogan is expected to proceed to Italy after completing his talks in Slovenia.
(Reporting by Adem Kadam)
