LJUBLJANA, April 29 (Hina) - Spokesman for the Slovene government Gregor Krajc has denied media reports on the withdrawal of the Slovene army from Mount Sveta Gera.
LJUBLJANA, April 29 (Hina) - Spokesman for the Slovene government
Gregor Krajc has denied media reports on the withdrawal of the Slovene
army from Mount Sveta Gera.#L#
The government has not decided on the matter, and there is no document
which will enable the withdrawal of the army from Sveta Gera," Krajc
was quoted by the Slovene Radio as saying.
The Zagreb-based Vecernji List daily on Thursday ran an article
headlined "The Slovene Army Is Leaving Sveta Gera?"
The speculation about the withdrawal of the Slovenes in the near
future from Sveta Gera, a place on the Croatian-Slovene border which
is registered in Croatian land books, was refuted also by the Office
of the Slovene President Janez Drnovsek which issued a statement
describing the reports by Croatian press as groundless.
The defence ministry stated that nothing was going on on Tridinov Vrh
which is the Slovene name for Sveta Gera.
The leader of Slovene ultranationalists, Zmago Jelincic, issued a
statement and sent a letter to Prime Minister Anton Rop accusing the
presidents of the two countries, Drnovsek of Slovenia and Stjepan
Mesic of Croatia, of "making a deal" with regard to Sveta Gera
yesterday when they met at the opening of the remodelled
border-crossing Jelsane/Rupa.
Jelincic aksed Rop whether he would allow that "Slovene soil be given
to foreigners".
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