"I am glad to see that Slovenia is one of Croatia's main trading partners that managed to increase their mutual trade last year," Volk said in a statement the Slovenian Embassy issued on Tuesday after the Croatian Central Bureau of Statistics published data on Croatia's foreign trade in 2010.
Last week, the statistical bureau reported that Croatia's exports to its western neighbour increased 25.1 percent to EUR 697 million, while imports from Slovenia went up 1.7 percent to EUR 885 million.
Trade between Croatia and Slovenia went up 10.8 percent on the year.
"The cause of those encouraging results cannot be ascribed only to the gradual recovery of the two economies, but also to the improvement of bilateral political relations, after the agreement of the two prime ministers and the signing of the border arbitration agreement," the ambassador said, recalling that the success in trade was even greater in light of the fact that the exchange of goods and services between Croatia and Slovenia had shrunk 26 percent in 2009.