LJUBLJANA, Dec 17 (Hina) - The Slovene parliament should ratify an agreement on the Krsko-based nuclear power plant (owned jointly with Croatia), Slovene Environmental Protection and Zoning Minister Janez Kopac said on
Tuesday.
LJUBLJANA, Dec 17 (Hina) - The Slovene parliament should ratify an
agreement on the Krsko-based nuclear power plant (owned jointly
with Croatia), Slovene Environmental Protection and Zoning
Minister Janez Kopac said on Tuesday. #L#
"The Croatian parliament ratified the agreement, and its
ratification is in our interest too," Kopac said before a
parliamentary committee that approved his term of office as
minister in the new government led by Premier Anton Kopac.
He answered questions posed by MPs who asked about the government's
reaction to yesterday's ruling of the Slovene constitutional court
which de-blocked the ratification procedure in Slovenia's
parliament.
Kopac, however, added that after the confirmation of the said
document in the Slovene parliament, Ljubljana and Zagreb should
begin new negotiations on how to regulate the situation since mid-
2001 until the enforcement of the bilateral treaty on the plant.
The agreement was made with the presumption that both sides would
ratify it until 30 July 2002, which would have enabled Croatia to
resume taking over electricity from the plant after a four-year
break. This did not happen due to the delay of the Slovene
parliament to confirm the said document.
(hina) ms sb