Jansa told this to a parliamentary deputy, the leader of the Slovene National Party, who asked during question time if the Slovene government would allow Croatia's "territorial claims" and "aggressive behaviour".
Jansa said his government was more active than former government's in relations with Croatia and that it adopted the decision to declare ecological and continental shelf because of the assessment that Italian-Croatian negotiations on the demarcation of the continental shelf in the Adriatic was not in line with the agreed policy, notably the policy adopted at a joint session of the two government's held on the Brijuni archipelago in Croatia.
For the first time Slovenia has seriously responded to Croatia's unilateral moves, Jansa said and added that Slovenia would continue to avoid moves which could provoke a conflict or deteriorate Slovenia's position in negotiations.
He said that Slovenia's standpoint was that one did not need to fear possible arbitration and that if the two countries opt for international arbitration, Slovenia had strong legal arguments.
Croatia has not formalised its offer about arbitration, and in case it makes its offer formal - the path to arbitration is a long one, Jansa said. He reiterated that it was in Slovenia's interest that Croatia's EU membership talks start as soon as possible.
The Slovene parliament is scheduled to debate the bill on ecological and continental shelf in eight days's time.