LJUBLJANA, Jan 23(Hina) - Slovenia is not satisfied with the wording of the latest draft report by the European Parliament on its readiness to join the European Union, which mentions "a conflict" between Ljubljana and Zagreb over the
sea border, and says it will make every effort to have the wording of the final version changed, Slovene media said on Friday.
LJUBLJANA, Jan 23(Hina) - Slovenia is not satisfied with the wording of
the latest draft report by the European Parliament on its readiness to
join the European Union, which mentions "a conflict" between Ljubljana
and Zagreb over the sea border, and says it will make every effort to
have the wording of the final version changed, Slovene media said on
Friday.#L#
An extensive report says that Slovenia is well prepared for admission
into the EU this May, but points out relations with Croatia as the
country's main foreign relations problem. The draft report says that
the problem of the border in the Bay of Piran falls within the
authority of international law, and that the European Commission at
one point indicated its readiness to help the two countries to resolve
the dispute bilaterally.
The Ljubljana-based daily Delo wrote in its Thursday issue that
Slovenia had proposed another text emphasising that the main problem
with Croatia lay in the fact that Zagreb did not agree to the
initialled agreement between the then prime ministers Drnovsek and
Racan and that it had "unilaterally declared" an ecological and
fishing zone in the Adriatic.
The Slovene proposal says that it was in the interests of all the
parties, including the European Union, to find a peaceful solution.
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