SISAK, Sept 11 (Hina) - The agreement on a temporary fishing regime in Piran Bay, reached by the Croatian and Slovene prime ministers in Zagreb on Tuesday, is "unacceptable and entirely unfavourable for Croatian national interests,"
the president of the opposition's Croatian Party of Rights (HSP) said on Wednesday.
SISAK, Sept 11 (Hina) - The agreement on a temporary fishing regime
in Piran Bay, reached by the Croatian and Slovene prime ministers in
Zagreb on Tuesday, is "unacceptable and entirely unfavourable for
Croatian national interests," the president of the opposition's
Croatian Party of Rights (HSP) said on Wednesday. #L#
The agreement is yet another mistake Croatia has made with regard to
Slovenia, Anto Djapic told reporters in Sisak.
He said the HSP would demand in parliament that Croatia proclaim an
economic belt in the northern Adriatic's Piran Bay, based on the
1982 Convention on the Law of the Sea.
That will prevent Slovenia from making territorial claims to
Croatian sea, Djapic said.
He added that the minimum his party could consent to was that the
border issue in Piran Bay be settled at the Hamburg-based Tribunal
for the Law of the Sea.
HSP vice president Miroslav Rozic maintained that "Slovenia's goal
is not free transit to international waters, which it is already
entitled to. Slovenia seeks sovereignty over that corridor to
acquire the status of a maritime country, to which it is not
entitled to as it has the status of a coastal country."
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