LJUBLJANA, July 16 (Hina) - Ahead of his trip to Sarajevo, Slovenian President Milan Kucan on Tuesday described the Slovenian-Bosnian relations as good, particularly in the economic field, but, he added, they could be promoted further
as well.
LJUBLJANA, July 16 (Hina) - Ahead of his trip to Sarajevo, Slovenian
President Milan Kucan on Tuesday described the Slovenian-Bosnian
relations as good, particularly in the economic field, but, he
added, they could be promoted further as well. #L#
"All open issues can be solved, but through dialogue... Unilateral
acts of state bodies can only be harmful," Kucan was quoted by the
Bosnian Croat-Muslim federal news agency (FENA) as saying.
He commented on some speculation that Slovenian goods may be
boycotted in Bosnia-Herzegovina due to the open issue about the
compensation to Bosnian depositors who had accounts in the
Ljubljanska bank. The Slovenian head of state believes that the
problem can be settled within negotiations on the succession to the
former Yugoslavia.
Asked whether he would be willing to testify in the trial against a
former Yugoslav president, Slobodan Milosevic, in The Hague if he
received summons from the UN war crimes tribunal, Kucan responded
that Slovenians were not involved, either as victims or a cause, in
the events with which Milosevic was charged by the tribunal, but he
would be ready, if asked by the tribunal, to reiterate his political
analysis of the causes which led towards crimes in the former
Yugoslavia.
On Thursday Kucan will pay an official visit to Sarajevo and hold
talks with Bosnian top officials.
(hina) ms