The mandate of the Consul General of the Republic of Slovenia in Klagenfurt, Milan Predan, terminated at the end of July, 2019. Before the termination he was honored by the State of Carinthia. Its Governor Peter Kaiser awarded Milan Predan the Great Golden Medal of Carinthia.
As Governor Kaiser said at the reception in the Hall of Mirrors in Klagenfurt, Predan received the Carinthian Golden Medal for his efforts to establish a close cross-border cooperation, his services to the Slovenian national minority and for the Austrian majority population in Carinthia.
Governor Kaiser stressed in his bilingual speech that Milan Predan as the Consul in Klagenfurt constantly tried to make people on both sides of the border -and even beyond- neighbors in the best sense of this word.
Previous disagreements between the Carinthian majority and the Slovenian minority are being solved mutually to a significant extent and positive developments can be noticed at home and abroad, also said Kaiser.