"It is not true that Croatia is withdrawing (from the process)," Jandrokovic said after he heard about the statement Zbogar gave after meeting Jandrokovic and Rehn in Brussels earlier on Thursday.
After the trilateral meeting, Jandrokovic stressed that Croatia had accepted Rehn's final compromise proposal and that it was Slovenia that rejected it.
"We have agreed to the final compromise proposal and we have stuck to it. Since we failed to reach agreement, I outlined at (today's) meeting proposals by Prime Minister Ivo Sanader to overcome this situation by signing a joint declaration that would say that since 1991 neither of the two countries has prejudged the border or by requesting legal services of the European Commission and the Council of the EU to give their opinion," Jandrokovic said.
After today's meeting, Zbogar accused Croatia of turning down Rehn's latest proposal.
The European Commission said on Thursday it regretted that Croatia and Slovenia failed to make progress in talks on the settlement of their border row, underlining that it was a bilateral issue.
(EU Enlargement) Commissioner (Olli) Rehn and the Foreign Ministers of Croatia and Slovenia, Gordan Jandrokovic and Samuel Zbogar, today continued talks in an attempt to find a solution to the border dispute and lift Slovenia's blockade of Croatia's EU accession talks.
The talks had progressed well since January and there remained only a limited number of points to be settled. Unfortunately, the two sides today failed to make progress on those points. Commissioner Rehn will now report to the current and future EU chairs. The border issue is a bilateral problem, reads a brief statement issued by Rehn's office and signed by his spokesperson Krisztina Nagy.
The EC statement made no mention of Croatia withdrawing from the process launched by Commissioner Rehn, which is what Slovene Foreign Minister Zbogar accused Croatia of earlier in the day.