ZAGREB, May 5 (Hina) - Outstanding issues between Croatia and Slovenia, including the issue of Mt. Sveta Gera, must be solved on a bilateral level, and this is the standpoint of the European Commission, the head of the European
Commission's Delegation to Croatia, Jacques Wunenburger, said on Wednesday.
ZAGREB, May 5 (Hina) - Outstanding issues between Croatia and Slovenia,
including the issue of Mt. Sveta Gera, must be solved on a bilateral
level, and this is the standpoint of the European Commission, the head
of the European Commission's Delegation to Croatia, Jacques
Wunenburger, said on Wednesday.#L#
Ambassador Wunenburger took part in a conference at Zagreb's Faculty
of Economy on the challenges of future EU enlargement, which was
organised by the Croatian European Integration Ministry and the
Croatian Students' Association.
Regardless of the fact that Slovenia joined the EU on May 1,
outstanding issues between that country and Croatia must be solved on
a bilateral level and that is the standpoint of the European
Commission, Wunenburger told reporters after the conference.
Wunenburger said that the border issue between EU member-states and
non-members was not in the jurisdiction of the European Commission or
the European Union.
He expressed hope that the said border issue between Croatia and
Slovenia would be solved bilaterally or through arbitration, stressing
that the European Commission would not voice its opinion about it as
it was not in its jurisdiction.
In the former Yugoslav federation, the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA)
had a barracks on Mt. Sveta Gera which is on Croatia's soil, but after
the JNA withdrew from the area in 1991, the Slovene Army took control
of the facility.
Slovenia is one of the ten European countries and the only former
Yugoslav republic which joined the EU on May 1.
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