LJUBLJANA, Feb 6 (Hina) - Slovenian Foreign Minister Zoran Thaler, Tuesday received a delegation of the Croatian parliamentary foreign affairs committee, led by Zarko Domljan.
LJUBLJANA, Feb 6 (Hina) - Slovenian Foreign Minister Zoran Thaler,
Tuesday received a delegation of the Croatian parliamentary foreign
affairs committee, led by Zarko Domljan. #L#
After closed talks Thaler said that Slovenian and Croatian
sides had agreed that it was necessary to improve relations between
the two countries. The climate is good, and parliaments should
impact on governments to solve open questions by agreement with a
sense of compromise and respecting joint interests, Thaler said.
The Croatian delegation is visiting Slovenia today at an
invitation by Borut Pahor, the head of the Slovenian parliamentary
international cooperation committee.
After the one-day talks at the Slovenian Parliament and at the
Foreign Ministry, Domljan and Pahor told a press conference that
the meetings were useful, concrete and comprehensive.
The views of the two delegations on the problem of the
Croatian-Slovenian border in Istria and on sea are different, but
the two sides hope that joint resolutions may be found on the basis
of the International Law and historical conditions, Pahor said.
(Slovenia is asking that the border on sea in the bay of Piran
be moved toward the Croatian shore of Zaljev, with the explanation
that Slovenia needs an access to the international waters).
The Croatian official Domljan said that during the talks the
two sides had showed the same view, in a great part, on open
questions. According to him, as regards the border up to 98 percent
of questions was solved, whereas the burning issue remained to be
the border at the ground and in the Bay of Piran.
The Croatian stance on the Zaljev is clear, Domljan said
adding that Croatia will insist on the use if the International
maritime law with the regime of using an passage thorough Croatian
territorial seas very liberally.
Domljan said that they shared the same vies on ties with third
countries, particularly with Italy and the debt under the Rome
agreement. Slovenia and Croatia agreed that they each would pay off
100 million dollars to Italy because of that debt.
(Under the Rome agreement the former Yugoslav federation
(SFRY) assumed obligation to pay compensation for property to
citizens who chose Italian citizenship and left Istria (SFRY) after
World War Two).
Domljan announced that the Slovenian Parliament Chairman Jozef
Slkoljc had invited Croatian Parliament Chairman Vlatko Pavletic to
visit Slovenia.
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