BUJE, Feb 5 (Hina) - Croatian parliamentarians, members of the lower house foreign policy committee, are to visit Ljubljana tomorrow at the invitation of the chairman of the Slovene Parliament international cooperation committee,
Borut Pahor. The Croatian delegation is led by Zarko Domljan.
BUJE, Feb 5 (Hina) - Croatian parliamentarians, members of the
lower house foreign policy committee, are to visit Ljubljana
tomorrow at the invitation of the chairman of the Slovene
Parliament international cooperation committee, Borut Pahor. The
Croatian delegation is led by Zarko Domljan. #L#
Ahead of tomorrow's official talks, the Croatian delegation
today visited the Croatian-Slovene border in the Bay of Piran.
Tomorrow's talks in Ljubljana were the first talks between the
two parliamentary committees in 18 months, Domljan said.
Relations with the Slovene foreign policy committee were
frozen 18 months ago when the Slovene Parliament passed the
Elections Act, which included four Croatian villages were in a
Slovene constituency, Domljan explained. The Slovene Parliament
subsequently quashed the contentious articles.
The border, particularly in the Bay of Piran, would be among
the topics discussed tomorrow, Domljan announced.
He explained that the Slovene side was putting forward
unacceptable and illogical claims. They should realise that Croatia
has not yet lost all its wits and will not allow the entire Piran
Bay to pass to Slovenia, which would mean that the coast belonged
to Croatia and the surrounding sea to Slovenia. Such a claim was
absolutely contrary to the law of nations and all maritime
conventions and would never be granted by any arbitration. If there
was no other solution, Croatia would seek arbitration, which would
end as predicted: the border would run across the Bay, Domljan
said.
Tomorrow's talks, however, were aimed at improving relations,
not exacerbating them, Domljan concluded.
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