LJUBLJANA, Jan 18 (Hina) - Croatian Parliament Speaker Zlatko Tomcic, who on Thursday headed a parliamentary delegation on a visit to Slovenia at the invitation of his Slovene counterpart Borut Pahor, met Slovene President Milan
Kucan. The time has come for the two countries to resolve open issues with mutual respect for their respective legitimate interests, Kucan said. Both states are committed to European values and there is therefore no need for disputes which are exclusively the consequence of the break-up of the former joint state, read a statement from Kucan's office. Kucan said Slovenia and Croatia were obliged to solve the problems for the sake of their citizens and for the sake of their responsibility for stability in Europe. It is therefore difficult to justify the fact that issues remain unresolved even ten years after the break-up of the former Yugoslavia, he said. The Croatian parliamentarians also m
LJUBLJANA, Jan 18 (Hina) - Croatian Parliament Speaker Zlatko
Tomcic, who on Thursday headed a parliamentary delegation on a
visit to Slovenia at the invitation of his Slovene counterpart
Borut Pahor, met Slovene President Milan Kucan. The time has come
for the two countries to resolve open issues with mutual respect for
their respective legitimate interests, Kucan said.
Both states are committed to European values and there is therefore
no need for disputes which are exclusively the consequence of the
break-up of the former joint state, read a statement from Kucan's
office. Kucan said Slovenia and Croatia were obliged to solve the
problems for the sake of their citizens and for the sake of their
responsibility for stability in Europe. It is therefore difficult
to justify the fact that issues remain unresolved even ten years
after the break-up of the former Yugoslavia, he said.
The Croatian parliamentarians also met members of the Slovene
government and Prime Minister Janez Drnovsek.
The two sides agreed about the need to speed up the resolution of
open issues. Tomcic conveyed his counterpart Pahor the readiness of
the Croatian government to solve those issues step by step, going
from easier to more difficult ones, in a friendly dialogue and in a
competent manner, eliminating possible disputes. He said Croatia
favoured a systematic dialogue between the two governments over
possible arbitration or a moratorium on some of the open issues.
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