"Soon it will be seven years that the Constitutional Court ruled that the injustice done to the so-called erased Slovene residents in February 1992 should be rectified. It is high time that Slovene politicians find a common ground and adopt appropriate legislation to rectify the injustice which is a burden for our young state," Drnovsek said on Monday in a letter released by his office.
Commenting on a constitutional bill on this issue that was drawn up by the government of Janez Jansa, Drnovsek said that despite certain reservations the bill represented an adequate basis for further party talks on the matter.
The bill, which should be adopted with a two-thirds majority, has not met with approval among parties of the left centre which have said that it does not reflect the meaning of the Court's decision that the erasing of non-Slovenes without Slovene citizenship was not legally grounded and recommended that those people be given back domicile in Slovenia.
Drnovsek said in the letter that Slovenia needed agreement on the matter because it was a law-based state.
According to data provided by the Constitutional Court, there are slightly more than 18,000 people in Slovenia who do not have Slovene citizenship and who were stripped of their rights in 1992.