Croatia's EU membership talks have been in a stalemate for months due to the blockade of the negotiating process imposed by Slovenia over a Slovenian-Croatian border dispute.
We have been working six months so as to find a solution to the border issue and unblock Croatia's accession negotiations. We are now very close to the settlement of major issues, we have passed a long path and I think it is high time for the completion of the process, Rehn said in Brussels on Thursday after meeting Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic.
Rehn said that on Monday morning before a regular meeting of EU foreign ministers in Luxembourg, he would met with the ministers of the EU presidential troika: France, the Czech Republic and Sweden - and after that with Foreign Ministers Gordan Jandrokovic of Croatia and Samuel Zbogar of Slovenia.