After the session in Ljubljana, foreign affairs committee head Jozef Jerovsek said the committees had endorsed a platform which the government adopted a day before. The platform contains the position of the Slovene government on launching membership negotiations with EU candidates Turkey and Croatia.
"The European prospects of Croatia and Turkey are in the Slovene interest," Jerovsek said, adding that Foreign Minister Rupel, who attended today's session, informed committees' members of his recent meeting with his Croatian counterpart Miomir Zuzul in Sofia and Croatia's "expectations".
Jerovsek said that a space for a date for the start of entry talks with Croatia remained blank in a document which the Dutch presidency drew up for the forthcoming EU summit, but this was not done because of Slovenia, he added. He also said that Turkey's road towards the EU would be long.
After reporters insisted on some more details on Slovenia's position on Croatia's membership talks, he said that Slovenia "would probably not be against" the start of the entry talks next year.