{"id":1270,"date":"2008-06-09T16:00:08","date_gmt":"2008-06-09T14:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/general\/danilo-turk-president-of-slovenia-speaks-at-the-forbes-ceo-forum.html"},"modified":"2008-06-09T16:00:08","modified_gmt":"2008-06-09T14:00:08","slug":"danilo-turk-president-of-slovenia-speaks-at-the-forbes-ceo-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=1270","title":{"rendered":"Danilo Turk, President of Slovenia speaks at the Forbes CEO Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"zemanta-img\" style=\"margin: 1em; float: right; display: block;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Image:Danilo_Turk.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/8\/80\/Danilo_Turk.jpg\/202px-Danilo_Turk.jpg\" alt=\"Danilo T\u00fcrk, president of Slovenia\" style=\"border: medium none ; display: block;\"><\/a><span class=\"zemanta-img-attribution\" style=\"margin: 1em 0pt 0pt; display: block;\">Image via <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Image:Danilo_Turk.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/span><\/span>I rarely remark on what a President of a small country says but with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Danilo_T%C3%BCrk\" title=\"Danilo T\u00fcrk\" rel=\"wikipedia\" class=\"zem_slink\">Danilo Turk<\/a> I will make an exception.  I just heard him speak at the Forbes CEO Forum in Cannes and much to my surprise he made a lot of sense.  Steve Forbes interviewed him and confronted with a lot of questions that he answered extremely well, without absurd, political sounding promises.  What was remarkable was how much he knew about the world scene. So while at the conference I wikied him and it turns out that he is an outstanding global diplomat.  Am I one of the few who had no idea who he was? My favorite phrase out of his presentation?  To end a war does not necessarily mean to learn to build in peace, witness Kosovo. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Zemified by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixie.png\" alt=\"Zemanta Pixie\" style=\"border: medium none ; float: right;\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div id=\"mainphotoarea\"><\/div><div class=\"theme-buttons\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=1270\" data-send=\"false\" data-layout=\"box_count\" data-width=\"71\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-font=\"arial\" data-locale=\"en_US\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image via WikipediaI rarely remark on what a President of a small country says but with Danilo Turk I will make an exception. I just heard him speak at the Forbes CEO Forum in Cannes and much to my surprise he made a lot of sense. Steve Forbes interviewed him and confronted with a lot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}