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OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Slovenian Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel (left), meeting Ukrainian Parliament Speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn in Kyiv, 5 January 2005.

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The OSCE Mission to Croatia's headquarters are located in the capital Zagreb.

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Slovenian Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel is the OSCE Chairman-in-Office in 2005, Ljubljana, December 2004.

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The Sticna monastery. The oldest, biggest and best preserved of numerous monasteries scattered throughout Slovenia, founded in 1135 in the midst of the broad hills and forests of the Dolenjska region.

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Outgoing Chairman-in-Office Solomon Passy of Bulgaria (left), symbolically passes the baton of the OSCE Chairmanship to Slovenian Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel. Sofia, 7 Dec 2004

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View of Ljubljana with the castle overlooking the old town, full of narrow cobblestone streets, galleries and boutiques, while the more modern part of the city begins across the Ljubljanica river.

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Koper is the largest coastal town in Slovenia and the country's only commercial port. Despite industrial growth it has preserved its old centre untouched.

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The noble Lipizzaner horse originated in Lipica, Slovenia, where the stud farm was established in 1580.

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The River Mura in the Pomurje region. In its 98 km-long Slovene section the River Mura (rises in the Alps of Austria's High Tauern) becomes a typical Pannonian lowland river, meandering back and forth across the plains of Pomurje.

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12th century Romanesque rotunda in Selo, Prekmurje.

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Triglav is the highest mountain of Slovenia's Julian Alps. For its exceptional beauty, the Slovenes have chosen their highest mountain peak, Triglav (2,864m), as their national symbol. Most of the Slovene land is mountainous.

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The valley of Logarska in the Kamnik-Savinja Alps is one of the most beautiful and peaceful glacial valleys in Europe. Protected since 1987.