LJUBLJANA, Jan 9 (Hina) - Italian Foreign Minister Massimo D'Alema has said ahead of his official visit to Slovenia scheduled for Wednesday, that the Italian government wants to cooperate with Slovenia and Croatia on major projects in
the northern Adriatic and that it is pushing for a meeting of the presidents of the three countries to close "traumatic chapters" from their past and focus on future cooperation.
LJUBLJANA, Jan 9 (Hina) - Italian Foreign Minister Massimo D'Alema
has said ahead of his official visit to Slovenia scheduled for Wednesday, that
the Italian government wants to cooperate with Slovenia and Croatia on major
projects in the northern Adriatic and that it is pushing for a meeting of the
presidents of the three countries to close "traumatic chapters" from their past
and focus on future cooperation. "I reaffirm our efforts that such
a meeting should take place as soon as possible and that it should also include
Croatia," D'Alema said on Tuesday in an interview with the Trieste-based
Slovene-language newspaper "Primorski dnevnik".
"It should not be just a symbolic meeting, but should overcome painful
historical consequences and reaffirm the willingness (of the three countries)
to move forward and build their future together in a new European context," he
added.
D'Alema said that the three countries should cooperate on important
topics for the northern Adriatic such as environmental protection, human
resources, major communication routes, energy networks, and culture.