ZAGREB, Sept 15 (Hina) - Croatia is going to the meeting with Slovenia in "good faith" and is ready to do all it can to improve coordination of activities with regard to the expansion of jurisdiction in the Adriatic, Croatian Deputy
Foreign Minister Ivan Simonovic told Hina on Monday.
ZAGREB, Sept 15 (Hina) - Croatia is going to the meeting with
Slovenia in "good faith" and is ready to do all it can to improve
coordination of activities with regard to the expansion of
jurisdiction in the Adriatic, Croatian Deputy Foreign Minister
Ivan Simonovic told Hina on Monday. #L#
Croatia's and Slovenia's experts will meet in Slovenia's Smarjeske
Toplice on Tuesday to discuss Croatia's plans to declare an
economic zone in the Adriatic.
Croatia proposed that the meeting be held at the level of deputy
foreign ministers, however, Slovenia insisted that the meeting be
held at the level of heads of the ministries' departments for
international law.
"We will attend the meeting in good faith and are ready to do all we
can to achieve a good level of co-ordination of activities
regarding the expansion of jurisdiction in the Adriatic,"
Simonovic said.
"We believe that the environmental protection of the Adriatic is
also important, and expanding jurisdiction should be a combination
of efforts to protect the fish stock and the environment, which we
are particularly interested in," said Simonovic reminding that in
1968 the then Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia had signed
an agreement on the epicontinental belt with Italy which resolved
most of the issues regarding the sea bed.
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