Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his Slovenian counterpart on media freedom.

Our Embassy in Ljubljana monitors media freedom in Slovenia, and officials regularly discuss media freedom and ways to build on the Global Pledge on Media Freedom with Slovenian hosts.

The Foreign Secretary attended the first annual Ministerial meeting of the Media Freedom Coalition in November 2020, alongside Slovenia and other members of the Coalition. The discussion covered a range of policy options and best practices to strengthen media freedom worldwide.