ZAGREB, Aug 26 (Hina) - The leaders of the Democratic Centre (DC) party began gathering signatures at Zagreb's main square on Monday for the government to publicly rescind an initialled agreement with Slovenia and officially inform
the Slovene government about it.
ZAGREB, Aug 26 (Hina) - The leaders of the Democratic Centre (DC)
party began gathering signatures at Zagreb's main square on Monday
for the government to publicly rescind an initialled agreement with
Slovenia and officially inform the Slovene government about it.
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DC president Mate Granic told reporters that it was necessary that
the government do so because the initialled agreement, although it
has no internationally legal effect, was extremely harmful to a
future international arbitration, and could even more damage
Croatian national interests if the government did not dismiss it on
time.
The initialled agreement has already caused relations between
Croatia and Slovenia to worsen, which is the cause of incidents in
Piran Bay, planned by the Slovene government, and which has made
solving open issues between the two countries impossible, Granic
stressed.
Binding international arbitration is the only "civilised and
democratic" way for the two countries to solve the border problem,
he said.
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