According to diplomatic sources, Vajgl told the EU Council, which met in Luxembourg to discuss the enlargement process, that more than 95 per cent of the Croatian-Slovene border was settled and that only a small part of the land border and delimitation at sea were still under dispute.
The outgoing Slovene foreign minister said that it was too early for arbitration, which is proposed by Croatia, adding that an arbitration process would last too long. He said that the idea of arbitration as the only way of resolving the border dispute was unacceptable.
Vajgl criticised Croatia for trying to establish new facts in the disputed area as part of its preparations for arbitration.
The Slovene minister welcomed the readiness of the EU high representative for the common foreign and security police to assist in finding a solution.
Vajgl said that Slovenia would support the fact that Croatia would become a member of the European Union, but that it expected Zagreb to behave constructively.
The EU ministers did not debate relations between Croatia and Slovenia, but the chairman of the meeting, Dutch Foreign Minister Bernard Bot, said that the problems between the two countries required EU involvement.
Enlargement Commissioner Guenter Verheugen presented reports on Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey and a pre-accession strategy for Croatia.
Verheugen said that negotiations with Croatia on full membership would speed up reforms in the country.
In the afternoon, the ministers will be joined by Hague war crimes tribunal Chief Prosecutor Carla del Ponte, who will submit a report on the cooperation of countries of the former Yugoslavia with the tribunal.