LJUBLJANA, Dec 23 (Hina) - We were the closest friends in the former (Socialist Federal) Yugoslavia, and we shall be close in a united Europe, Croatia's Prime Minister Ivo Sanader said in an interview with Slovenia's state-run
television on Tuesday evening.
LJUBLJANA, Dec 23 (Hina) - We were the closest friends in the former
(Socialist Federal) Yugoslavia, and we shall be close in a united
Europe, Croatia's Prime Minister Ivo Sanader said in an interview with
Slovenia's state-run television on Tuesday evening.#L#
Asked how his cabinet would treat the issue of deposits which
Croatia's nationals had in the former Ljubljanska Bank Zagreb, the new
Croatian PM said that those who had spent the deposits of Croatian
clients, should give them back and this would be a fair solution.
Until gaining an insight in relevant document, Sanader declined to say
whether Croatia would ratify the Vienna agreement on the succession to
the former federal Yugoslavia or make the ratification conditional, as
the Racan government did, on the establishment of facts on the
disappearance of a part of blocked foreign currencies holdings of the
ex-Yugoslavia.
Slovene's television was the first foreign TV to interview Sanader
after he became the Croatian PM.
Immediately after he won a vote of confidence as the new Croatian PM
on Tuesday afternoon, Sanader gave a short interview also 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.
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