LJUBLJANA/ZAGREB, May 6 (Hina) - Slovenia will insist on the initialled draft border agreement with Croatia, Slovene Secretary of State with the Foreign Ministry Iztok Simoniti told a Slovene television station on Monday
evening.
LJUBLJANA/ZAGREB, May 6 (Hina) - Slovenia will insist on the
initialled draft border agreement with Croatia, Slovene Secretary
of State with the Foreign Ministry Iztok Simoniti told a Slovene
television station on Monday evening.#L#
"We expect the same from Croatia," the Slovene official said,
confirming previous statements by Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel
according to which Slovenia considers negotiations on border with
Croatia completed.
Simoniti said this commenting on a newest draft report made by the
European parliament on Slovenia, which focuses on the possibility
of arbitration regarding the solution for the Croatia-Slovenia
border agreement, should the two country fail to reach a bilateral
solution on this matter.
Last week Slovenia's Foreign Ministry said that it was "surprised"
at the news that Croatia would intervene in relation to an amendment
by an Italian representative to the European Parliament Dimitrij
Volcic who suggested in the report on Slovenia that the possibility
of international arbitration with regard to resolving contentious
matters related to the border between Slovenia and Croatia should
be "deleted".
The Croatian Foreign Ministry said in a statement Croatia had not
changed its attitude regarding the agreement with Slovenia on the
common state border, adding, however, it would not renounce the
possibility of resolving the issue via arbitration if the two sides
do not manage to come to a direct agreement. However, that does not
mean that Croatia is rejecting the final possibility of possible
international arbitration to resolve any conflicts, the statement
says, adding that Croatia will resort to arbitration if an
agreement cannot be reached through direct negotiation between the
two sides.
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