As far as we are concerned, there is absolutely no intention to reopen those agreements, the Italian minister said in response to questions from the press.
Amato was in Brussels to attend a regular meeting of the Council for Justice and Home Affairs.
Against a backdrop of a row between Italian and Croatian leaders over Italian WWII victims, Amato ascribed the reaction of Croatian President Stjepan Mesic to internal political needs.
I have known Mesic for a long time as a moderate politician. There are obviously certain things in his country that made him come out with very strongly-worded statements against Italy, Amato said.
During last Saturday's commemoration of foibe victims, i.e. Italians who were thrown into karst pits by Tito's Partisans at the end of World War II, Italian President Giorgo Napolitano said the responsibility for the executions lay with "Slav bloodthirsty hatred" and expansionist aspirations.
On Monday, Mesic hit back saying that such language contained elements of open racism and attempts to rewrite history.
The 1947 Paris peace treaty and the 1975 Osimo agreement defined the border between Italy and the Yugoslav federation.