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Contact
Address
Embassy of Slovenia in Berlin
Hausvogteiplatz 3-4
D-10117 Berlin
Phone Number
+49 (0)30 20 61 45 0
Website
www.berlin.embassy.si
E-Mail
sloembassy.berlin@gov.si
The Ambassador
Amb. Dr Ana Polak Petrič
Dr Ana Polak Petrič is a Slovenian diplomat, international lawyer and academic. She has served as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Slovenia to the Federal Republic of Germany since September 2022.
From 2019 to 2022, she was Slovenia's Ambassador to Japan, with non-resident accreditation to the Republic of Korea and the Philippines. Between 2014 and 2019, she served as Slovenia's High Representative for Succession Issues relating to the former Yugoslavia and was also appointed as an assistant agent of Slovenia before the European Court of Human Rights.
Polak Petrič has worked as a diplomat and legal expert at Slovenia's Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs since 2003. From 2007 to 2011, she served as Human Rights Adviser at Slovenia's Permanent Representation to the United Nations, the OSCE and other international organisations in Vienna. She has also worked on international legal matters and represented Slovenian positions in multilateral forums. She graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Ljubljana, completed a master's degree in international relations through the Diplomatic Academy and the University of Vienna, and holds a doctorate in international law. In addition to her diplomatic career, she has taught international law, diplomacy and European law and has published on international and European law, human rights and state succession.
History
Germany and Slovenia established diplomatic relations on the 15th of January 1992. The relations between the two states are both positive and harmonious. Germany has an embassy in Ljubljana and Slovenia has an embassy in Berlin and a general consulate in Munich. Both countries are full members of NATO and the European Union. In recent times, numerous high-level visits have highlighted the friendly relations between the two states.
