LJUBLJANA, June 6 (Hina) - Three days ahead of the meeting between Croatian and Slovene prime ministers Ivica Racan and Janez Drnovsek, expectations are raising in Ljubljana that the meeting will be crucial for solving at least one
open issue, especially the Piran Bay and sea border issues. Some politicians have given statements to the media, saying Croatia should be told it must make more concessions. After the head of the Slovene National Party, Zeljko Jelincic, again reported to the Constitutional Court the ratification of the agreement on border traffic and cooperation, and told Ljubljanas's daily Delo Slovenia should demand war damage compensation of Croatia, the agreement was today discussed by parliamentary representatives of the Slovene People's Party, younger partners in Prime Minister Drnovsek's coalition government. Party representative Stanislav Brecic told a news conference his party submitted a resolu
LJUBLJANA, June 6 (Hina) - Three days ahead of the meeting between
Croatian and Slovene prime ministers Ivica Racan and Janez
Drnovsek, expectations are raising in Ljubljana that the meeting
will be crucial for solving at least one open issue, especially the
Piran Bay and sea border issues.
Some politicians have given statements to the media, saying Croatia
should be told it must make more concessions. After the head of the
Slovene National Party, Zeljko Jelincic, again reported to the
Constitutional Court the ratification of the agreement on border
traffic and cooperation, and told Ljubljanas's daily Delo Slovenia
should demand war damage compensation of Croatia, the agreement was
today discussed by parliamentary representatives of the Slovene
People's Party, younger partners in Prime Minister Drnovsek's
coalition government.
Party representative Stanislav Brecic told a news conference his
party submitted a resolution into parliamentary procedure, which
should be adopted before the agreement with Croatia is signed.
The draft resolution claims villages on the west bank of the
Dragonja River belong to Slovenia, as does the Piran Bay, and
Croatia has "a historic debt to Slovenia" because after the fall of
the former social Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Italy,
"140,000 Slovenians" remained in Italy, and very little
Croatians.
The resolution would "at least to an extent protect Slovenia's
vital interests," they claim.
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