ZAGREB, Sept 17 (Hina) - Relations between Croatia and Slovenia have deteriorated dramatically and they have not been worse with other neighbours since the Washington and Dayton agreements, Democratic Centre president Mate Granic said
on Tuesday.
ZAGREB, Sept 17 (Hina) - Relations between Croatia and Slovenia
have deteriorated dramatically and they have not been worse with
other neighbours since the Washington and Dayton agreements,
Democratic Centre president Mate Granic said on Tuesday. #L#
He stated this was the reason why the DC had requested that
parliament adopt a declaration on the state of foreign affairs,
with particular reference to relations with Slovenia.
"Attendance at numerous international conference does not mean
leading an active foreign policy, even less so a successful one,"
Granic said.
He estimated that the latest border agreement between the Croatian
and Slovene prime ministers did not resolve almost anything. He
maintained the issue was not the local border cooperation deal and
50 tonnes of fish, but the fact that fishermen in the border Piran
Bay had lost their trust in the government, the PM, and the Istrian
Democratic Assembly party.
"The most important thing is to resolve the problem of the temporary
(fishing) regime in (Piran Bay)," Granic emphasised.
Granic claimed that recent statements by IDS vice president and MP
Damir Kajin that former Croatian President Franjo Tudjman had asked
for arms in exchange for Piran Bay were "incorrect and naive".
He said the late Tudjman was never directly involved with arms
supplies nor with negotiations with Slovenia but authorised the
Foreign Ministry to do so. Tudjman, Granic said, was strict in
demands that the Slovene army withdraw from Sveta Gera.
(hina) sp/ha sb