APPALED AND SHAKEN BY MINDLESS TERRORISM IN THE USA

Ljubljana, 11 September 2001


I am profoundly shaken and appalled by the mindless act of terrorist crime committed today in the United States of America. All of Slovenia shares a deep human solidarity with the American people and sincerely sympathizes with the families of those killed and wounded.

Today's crime is a new and serious warning that the international community didn't know and wasn't ready to react with adequate effectiveness to the threat of increasing, organized and internationally networked terrorism. The tragic consequences of today's act of terrorism can leave neither us, nor others nor the entire democratic world undistressed. They call for well thought-out and decisive action.