LJUBLJANA, Sept 11 (Hina) - Slovenia's "committee for the protection from foreign countries", an association of citizens formed after the arrest of Croatian Josko Joras in Mlini, near the border with Slovenia, on Wednesday accused
Slovene Prime Minister Janez Drnovsek of having forgotten his country's national interest to acquire "contentious" villages south of Dragonja River after talks with Croatian Prime Minister Ivica Racan.
LJUBLJANA, Sept 11 (Hina) - Slovenia's "committee for the
protection from foreign countries", an association of citizens
formed after the arrest of Croatian Josko Joras in Mlini, near the
border with Slovenia, on Wednesday accused Slovene Prime Minister
Janez Drnovsek of having forgotten his country's national interest
to acquire "contentious" villages south of Dragonja River after
talks with Croatian Prime Minister Ivica Racan. #L#
"The government is silent and is not saying whether it wants that
territory and local Croatian Slovenes, or has it written them off a
long time ago," a committee member, Joze Pucnik, told reporters on
Wednesday.
Another committee member, Dane Zajc, said Drnovsek's actions were
"cynical pragmatism".
The committee announced it would continue with its work because
villages south of Dragonja, they said, "were in Slovenia's land
registry" in 1991.
(hina) lml