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Slovenia ready to cooperate in training Palestinian police

by AI | 20.Nov 2025 | Europe in brief AI

Slovenia is, according to Foreign Minister Tanja Fajon, ready to participate in the training of Palestinian police officers from Gaza, which is planned by the EU.

Slovenian Foreign Minister Tanja Fajon at the EU Foreign Ministers' meeting in Brussels. Photo: Thierry Monasse/STA

Brussels – Slovenia is, according to Foreign Minister Tanja Fajon, ready to participate in the training of Palestinian police officers from Gaza, which is planned by the EU. How exactly it will participate is not yet known, the minister added in a statement on the sidelines of the meeting of the foreign ministers of the EU member states in Brussels. She also supported the EU mission to assist the operation of the Rafah border crossing.

“Slovenia is also ready to participate. So we are currently reviewing how many people and where,” Fajon said about the EU’s plans to train up to 3,000 police officers from Gaza, announced by the EU’s high representative for foreign affairs, Kaja Kallas.

The police officers, who are reportedly on the payroll of the Palestinian Authority, would be trained under the EU mission to support the Palestinian police EUPOL COPPS, which currently operates only in the occupied West Bank.

According to the minister, Slovenia also supports the revival of the EUBAM Rafah mission, aimed at supporting the operation of the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt. The mission started in 2005 but is currently not operational at the border crossing.

The foreign ministers of the member states discussed the change of mandates for these two EU civilian missions in the region as part of a discussion on the role of the union in implementing the peace plan for Gaza proposed by U.S. President Donald Trump. The plan, under which a fragile ceasefire between the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas and the Israeli army came into effect on October 10, was supported on Monday by the United Nations Security Council, of which Slovenia is currently a member. (November 20)