"We definitely don't want someone who does not speak Italian and is not part of the Italian culture to be given Italian citizenship and we want to limit that issue, and it will be limited if we deal with it together," Radin told reporters after the closed-door meeting.
President Mesic did not attend the news conference.
Radin said that he had reminded President Mesic that Italy intended to grant citizenship not only to members of the Italian minority in Slovenia and Croatia, but to Italian descendants worldwide.
He also said that President Mesic had repeated his proposal for a meeting between the presidents of Croatia, Slovenia and Italy, which has been postponed.
Mesic and representatives of the Italian Union also discussed the education of the Italian minority, the school-leaving examination, and bilingual names of towns and municipalities in the northern Adriatic region of Istria.