LJUBLJANA, Dec 23 (Hina) - Slovenia's Prime Minister Anton Rop has sent a message to the new Croatian Prime Minister, Ivo Sanader, congratulating him on the election and expressing hope in the strengthening of good neighbourly ties
and the solving of open issues, Rop's office reported on Tuesday.
LJUBLJANA, Dec 23 (Hina) - Slovenia's Prime Minister Anton Rop has sent
a message to the new Croatian Prime Minister, Ivo Sanader,
congratulating him on the election and expressing hope in the
strengthening of good neighbourly ties and the solving of open issues,
Rop's office reported on Tuesday.#L#
Immediately after he won a vote of confidence as the new Croatian PM
earlier in the day, Sanader gave a short interview to the Slovene
daily Delo in which he voiced the readiness of his cabinet to hold
bilateral negotiations with Slovenia on all open issues. Only if the
bilateral talks fail, Zagreb and Ljubljana should resort to
international arbitration, according to him.
(Hina) ms