The commission's chairmen, historians Janko Prunk of Slovenia and Petar Strcic of Croatia, made this announcement at a news conference in the Strmol castle near Ljubljana on Friday.
The book could be released in late September, and it will contain texts by Croatian scientists with their views on bilateral relations and texts by their Slovene colleagues with their positions on those relations. Texts by Croatian scientists will be published in Croatian and texts by Slovene scientists in Slovene.
By publishing the book, the commission will complete its two-year term, and Croatian historians have proposed that the commission continue with its activities.
Possible new topics are historical maps or the phenomenon of the Glagolitic script, Strcic said.
He went on to say that the book on Croatian-Slovene relations could have a positive impact on bilateral relations, and that the purpose of the commission was to help cool tension in those relations because the cause of the tension was "trivial", while Prunk added that nationalist tones could be heard only in a small segment of the political scene and population in the two countries.
Answering questions about the book and current border issues, Prunk said that from the historical point of view, 85 percent of the Croatian-Slovene
border was very clear, while the border in the Istria region was more complex. Nevertheless, the two countries recognised the borders between the former Yugoslav republics as the new state borders and were consequently internationally recognised on the basis of the opinion of the Badinter commission, Prunk said.