"Slovenia will honour that ruling and take every necessary step in that direction. This means that we will do everything to reimburse the clients who prove they had their deposits in Ljubljanska Banka," Cerar said on the Bosnian BHT1 network and some of his statements were carried by Slovenian media on Monday.
"We will repay the Ljubljanska Banka debt with interest if that's in accordance with the law," he said, adding that next year his cabinet would adopt legislation to implement the ECHR ruling in the Alisic et al. versus Slovenia case.
This pilot ruling ordered Slovenia to pay Yugoslav-era Ljubljanska Banka clients in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the other former Yugoslav republics their deposits in the same way that the now-defunct bank's clients in Slovenia were reimbursed.
Cerar said Slovenia would not take legal action against the ruling.
He also elaborated on a statement he had made in July, when he told a newspaper that the ruling would impact the Slovenian state budget and that Slovenia should think about taking action before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against the successors to the former Yugoslavia which were in breach of the 2001 succession treaty.
Speaking on BHT1, Cerar said it did not mean that Slovenia would sue Bosnia before the ICJ, but that he was referring to Ljubljanska Banka clients in Croatia and the proceedings against the bank in Croatian courts because of transferred deposits. He recalled that Croatia had already reimbursed some of the bank's Croatian clients.
Slovenia believes that the Yugoslav-era foreign deposits are a succession issue which should be solved by the successor states, and demands that the Croatian court proceedings against Ljubljanska Banka cease.