Slovenia sent a protest note to Croatia last Friday accusing it of claiming the part of the Adriatic Sea by extending oil company INA's concession to drill for oil and gas in that part of the Adriatic which Ljubljana holds that the successors to the former Yugoslavia have still not divided.
Zagreb responded to Slovenia's note yesterday, accusing Ljubljana of aspiring to Croatian territory and announcing that Croatia will report Slovenia to the European Union and the United Nations.
"Slovenia's request is entirely unacceptable," Jandrokovic told reporters after a session of the National Committee for Supervising Croatia's Accession Negotiations with the European Union.
"It is clear where the border is. There will be no talk about these issues and we dismiss those claims," Jandrokovic said.
Tonci Tadic of the Croatian Party of Rights said Croatia should prepare itself for a law suit before the International Court of Justice in The Hague, adding that Brussels should "force" Slovenia to appear before that court.
He stressed that Slovenia was the only country in Europe that refuses any form of involvement of international courts except advisory arbitration which, in Tadic's opinion, speaks of the power of their arguments.
"Slovenia wants to create special circumstances at sea so as to gain access to our continental shelf. This will not be possible," Tadic said.
Croatian law school professors on Tuesday issued a press release refuting the Slovene attitude on the issue as unacceptable.
They believe that Slovenia's statements were contrary to indisputable historical facts about the existing borderline between Slovenia and Croatia, that are in compliance with the international law.