. Poecking, 11. Januar 2008 My dear Mr Jankovic-Potocnik Please accept my most heartfelt thanks for the kind wishes you sent me for Christmas and New Year. Your message, together with the photo on the card, gave me great pleasure. A message of this kind, from Slovenians and others who maintain noble traditions of Slovenia's past, is particularly precious to me. It also gives me enormous satisfaction to see Slovenia in the role of President of the European Union for six months. With regard to this, I believe it will never be forgotten that Slovenia was the first of the former communist countries of south-eastern Europe to establish contacts with the European Union, taking a great risk in so doing. As such, Slovenia will, in the future, surely continue to play an important role in European affairs, and we can assist in the fulfillment of Slovenia's duty in these matters by our maintenance of those noble traditions of the past which can still bring to bear a beneficial influence on matters of today. I am, therefore, wishing you and your friends all the best in the New Year, together with many blessings. I hope that in the near future there will be an opportunity to meet you again - this time on Slovenian soil. With warmest regards Otto von Habsburg . (Translated by S. Clowes) |
. Poecking, 11. Januar 2008 Spostovani, dragi gospod Jankovic-Potocnik, prisrcno se vam zahvalujem za vase prijazne besede ob bozicnih praznikih in novem letu. Vase zelje sem skupaj s fotografijo na voscilnici prejel z velikim veseljem. Prav taksne besede slovenskih rojakov in ljudi, ki pri vas ohranjajo spomin na veliko in slavno tradicijo nasih Slovencev, so zame se posebej dragocene. Prav tako mi je v veliko veselje, da je sedaj Slovenija za pol leta prevzela odgovornost za Evropsko unijo. Pri tem se ne sme nikoli pozabiti, da je bila Slovenija nekoc prva od nekdanjih komunisticnih drzav, ki je iz jugovzhodnega evropskega prostora navezala stike z Evropsko unijo, pri cemer je veliko tvegala. To pa pomeni, da bo imela Slovenija tudi v prihodnosti v evropskem okviru velike naloge. K njihovi izpolnitvi lahko s tem, da se povezujemo s slavno tradicijo Slovenije, prispevamo tudi sami. Zato vam in vasim prijateljem v novem letu zelim vse najboljse in najobilnejsi Bozji blagoslov ter upam, da se mi bo kmalu ponudila priloznost za ponovno srecanje z vami - tokrat na slovenskih tleh. Z najprisrcnejsimi pozdravi! Otto von Habsburg . (Prevod: A. Simec in clani Ad Pirum)
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