CROATIAN, SLOVENE PARLIAMENT HEADS DISCUSS BILATERAL RELATIONS

PIRAN, Sept 28 (Hina) - Croatian Parliament President Zlatko Tomcic and his Slovene counterpart Borut Pahor held an informal meeting to discuss bilateral relations after a soccer match between Slovene and Croatian parliamentarians in Piran on Saturday. #L# The two officials said they had discussed bilateral relations and open questions and supported the temporary fishing regime in Piran Bay that was agreed by a local border sub-commission on fishing with the support of both governments. Tomcic said that the stand of the Croatian government on the border agreement that had been initialled last year was clear and that the agreement was not acceptable for the Croatian public, while Pahor expressed regret that Croatia had backed out of the agreement. "We are ready to continue bilateral talks, but we are also ready to conclude an agreement on international arbitration," Tomcic said, adding that solving the problem of foreign savings deposits of Croatian clients in Ljubljanska Banka Zagreb would help solve other open questions as well. Pahor replied that Slovenia's official stand on the matter was that the issue of Ljubljanska Banka clients was a succession issue. Tomcic said he expected that the Slovene parliament would ratify the agreement on the Krsko nuclear power plant, which the Croatian parliament had already done. (hina) rml