Jansa said the White Paper was a collection of historical documents and acts illustrating the formal state of affairs on the Slovenia-Croatia border before they gained independence from the former Socialist Yugoslavia. He added the Paper "is crucial for our agreement that we will acknowledge that state of affairs and that the border between the (former) republics became the state border".
Jansa underlined that the White Paper was not an attack on Croatia and that Croatia could issue its own collection of documents "because it is true that in the former Yugoslavia some jurisdictions overlapped".
Jansa said the White Paper featured a lot of material previously unfamiliar to the public.
He said it was important how the authority had been really carried out at individual points on the border before Slovenia and Croatia became independent as in many cases this would make it easier to determine who had jurisdiction in which areas.
Jansa said the most important aspect for Slovenia was that the White Paper contained documents proving that before gaining independence Slovenia had had access to the high seas and controlled the entire Piran Bay in the northern Adriatic.
Asked about incidents which occurred between Croatia and Slovenia even after the two governments signed an agreement on the avoidance of incidents a year ago, Jansa said there had been only one "serious incident" -- the Croatia-Italy agreement on the delineation of the continental shelf. He said Slovenia had not been included in the agreement even though it was a successor of the Italian-Yugoslav agreement on the delineation of the continental shelf.
"That move on Croatia's part was contentious and we had to immediately react with our law on the continental shelf and ecology zone. Croatia's move was not conducive to a good atmosphere. That decision went outside the framework of the statement on the avoidance of incidents and it will not benefit Croatia in the future."
Asked if he planned on meeting Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader soon, Jansa said they met in Brussels on a regular basis and that they were agreed to work on concrete steps intended to improve cooperation and not touch into areas where it was not realistic to expect progress at present.
Jansa said talks were under way to organise a major business conference, and that he expected a positive development in the opening of Croatia's real estate market for Slovenes given that the Slovene parliament recently adopted a law under which this issue would be settled on the principle of reciprocity between Slovenia as a European Union member and Croatia as an accession candidate.
Jansa also commented on the issue of Ljubljanska Banka's debt to Croatian depositors.
He said there were two possible solutions in principle, either within succession of the former Yugoslavia or by enabling the bank to operate in Croatia and thus settle the debt. He said he believed no one in Slovenia would object if Croatia accepted the latter solution.