(ANSA) - BELGRADE, NOV 15 - The President of the Italian region of Friuli Venezia Giulia, Massimiliano Fedriga, received the Slovenian Golden Order for Merits today, the Slovenian President Borut Pahor announced on Twitter. Fedriga was awarded "for his contribution to the deepening of Slovenian-Italian cooperation and for his support of the Slovenian minority in Italy with the return of the National House in Trieste and the ceremonies in Bazovica and in Gorica/Nova Gorica," Pahor wrote.

Pahor also awarded the Order to the President of the Austrian region of Carinthia, Peter Kaiser, for his role in deepening cooperation between Slovenia and Austria and in promoting the rights of the Slovene minority in the Austrian Carinthia.

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