ZAGREB, Feb 19 (Hina) - During the next six weeks Croatia will try to reach agreement with Slovenia on the nuclear power plant "Krsko", and after that it is to sign a contract on arbitration in the issue of the Ljubljanska bank and an
agreement on property relations, Croatian Foreign Minister Mate Granic said in Zagreb on Friday. Our aim is to settle the Ljubljanska bank problem by the help of arbitration, to agree on the Krsko plant in the coming month and a half and to sign three treaties afterwards - the contract on arbitration, the agreement on the nuclear power plant, and the agreement on property issues, Granic said addressing the Croatian House of Representatives on the Croatian-Slovene relations. According to Granic, the Croatian Foreign Ministry disagreed with a report of the HSP (Croatian Party of Rights), that proposed a parliamentary debate on the matter, on everything except on one
ZAGREB, Feb 19 (Hina) - During the next six weeks Croatia will try to
reach agreement with Slovenia on the nuclear power plant "Krsko",
and after that it is to sign a contract on arbitration in the issue
of the Ljubljanska bank and an agreement on property relations,
Croatian Foreign Minister Mate Granic said in Zagreb on Friday.
Our aim is to settle the Ljubljanska bank problem by the help of
arbitration, to agree on the Krsko plant in the coming month and a
half and to sign three treaties afterwards - the contract on
arbitration, the agreement on the nuclear power plant, and the
agreement on property issues, Granic said addressing the Croatian
House of Representatives on the Croatian-Slovene relations.
According to Granic, the Croatian Foreign Ministry disagreed with a
report of the HSP (Croatian Party of Rights), that proposed a
parliamentary debate on the matter, on everything except on one
point - Sveta Gera, a border village 50 km west of Zagreb.
The only thing which Slovenia can, in no way, justify or defend is
the maintenance of five soldiers at Sveta Gera, and we fully agree
with the (HSP) report only on this issue, Granic said.
After Granic's speech, the HSP leader, Ante Djapic, addressed the
lower house.
In his report, Djapic suggested several proposals for radicalising
the bilateral relations between the two neighbouring countries.
During the debate, the HSP head said Croatia should be interested
neither in the international position of Slovenia nor in
developments on the Slovene domestic political scene. Croatia
should be interested only in the defence of its rights, he added.
Djapic said Croatia had chosen a strategy of "active passivity" in
the relations with Slovenia. He maintained that Croatia had either
underestimated problems and unreasonable Slovene ambitions or
expected that problems would be solved by themselves.
He claimed that Croatia must not accept any arbitration and that the
Sveta Gera is the only spot in Croatia still under the foreign
military occupation. Djapic also mentioned the "Slovene annexation
of three hamlets in Istria".
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