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Mesic comments on postponement of his informal meeting with Drnovsek

ZAGREB, Feb 6 (Hina) - Croatian President Stjepan Mesic said on Tuesday he did not know why an informal meeting with his Slovene counterpart Janez Drnovsek had been postponed.
ZAGREB, Feb 6 (Hina) - Croatian President Stjepan Mesic said on Tuesday he did not know why an informal meeting with his Slovene counterpart Janez Drnovsek had been postponed.

Speaking to reporters at a symposium in Zagreb, Mesic said he would talk to Drnovsek today to see why the meeting was put off.

The two presidents were to meet in Bjelovar, 80 kilometres northeast of Zagreb, on February 15 at the launch of a book written by Drnovsek.

Mesic dismissed the allegation that the meeting was postponed as a result of a deterioration in Croatian-Slovene relations.

"You know that Janez Drnovsek makes his decisions on his own, including one about his book, and his decisions don't depend on daily political occurrences," he said.

Asked about the possibility of him and Drnovsek launching a joint initiative, Mesic said that it would be too early at the moment.

The Croatian president reiterated that it was necessary for representatives of both countries to sit down at the negotiating table and demarcate the border "with mathematical precision".

"I see that this is not possible, so the only way out is that we go to court," Mesic said, adding that "this is what people do when they cannot reach an agreement, without having to be hostile to each other because of it."

"The same goes for states. A lot of countries have very good relations even though they went to the International Court of Justice in The Hague to settle some issues between them. The issue we have to resolve is to identify a small portion of the land border (...) while the sea border is determined based on international conventions. Until that is done, the middle line applies," Mesic said.

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