LJUBLJANA, March 12 (Hina) - The chairman of the Slovene parliament's foreign affairs committee, Jelko Kacin, said on Wednesday the committee would hold a special session to discuss relations with Croatia.
LJUBLJANA, March 12 (Hina) - The chairman of the Slovene
parliament's foreign affairs committee, Jelko Kacin, said on
Wednesday the committee would hold a special session to discuss
relations with Croatia. #L#
"The latest events regarding Croatia will have repercussions both
for us and them," Kacin said at a committee session, commenting on
demands by some committee members that relations with Croatia be
put on the agenda. He did not specify, however, when the committee
would discuss this topic.
Several MPs said that Croatia was attempting to depict Slovenia as
not being ready to enter the EU and NATO, and in that context
mentioned Croatian President Stjepan Mesic's recent statements
about the expansion of the economic belt on the Adriatic, the
Croatian Supreme Court's ruling concerning Ljubljanska Bank's real
estate in Croatia and the confiscation of Slovene trawlers.
"The arrest of Slovene fishermen in international waters has again
sparked up 'the war of the fishermen'," said Jozef Jerovsek, a
member of the committee. A National Party MP, Zmago Jelincic, once
again proposed holding a conference in Belgrade that would focus on
the division of the Adriatic Sea among former Yugoslav countries
according to the formula Southeast Europe + Slovenia-Albania.
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