On Friday, at the end of a two-day conference of EU countries' justice and interior ministers, the Slovene Interior Minister is planning to inform his colleagues of Ljubljana's position on relations with Croatia, a spokesman for the Slovene government, Gregor Krajc, said on Thursday after its session.
The recent incident in which Croatian police officers detained a group of Sloven politicians, including two MPs from the Slovene People's Party (SLS), is the main topic of political debates.
Slovene political parties unanimously condemned the conduct of the Croatian police, with some of them asking for the resignation of Slovene Interior Minister Bohinc and chief police commander Darko Anzelj, whom they accused of failing to protect Slovene nationals on "the disputed area".
Explaining why Slovene police officers did not react, Anzelj said a day after the incident that it occurred at one of the disputed areas along the Slovene-Croatian border which were registered both in Croatian and Slovene land books, and the Slovene police had never carried out jurisdiction south of the Dragonja river.
This was the situation before Slovenia gained independence and has been such since, the Slovene police chief said.
Claiming that the incident had occurred on the "disputed area", which comes under the jurisdiction of Croatia under the initialled Racan-Drnovsek agreement, the Slovene side used the occasion to again express its unwillingness to accept possible international arbitration in the demarcation of the borderline.