ZAGREB, Jan 16 (Hina) - Croatia's Foreign Minister Miomir Zuzul and his Slovene counterpart, Dimitrij Rupel, began their talks in Zagreb on Friday afternoon.
ZAGREB, Jan 16 (Hina) - Croatia's Foreign Minister Miomir Zuzul and his
Slovene counterpart, Dimitrij Rupel, began their talks in Zagreb on
Friday afternoon.#L#
According to previous announcements, the two ministers are expected to
discuss bilateral relations and open issues as well as multilateral
cooperation. After the talks they will hold a news conference. Today's
meeting is seen as a preparation for the first meeting of Croatia's
Prime Minister Ivo Sanader and his Slovene colleague Antun Rop,
scheduled for later this month.
Today's meeting of Zuzul and Rupel is the first between the foreign
ministers of the two neighbouring countries since April 2003 when the
then Croatian foreign minister, Tonino Picula, and Rupel met in Koper,
Slovenia. The relations between Zagreb and Ljubljana have been
burdened for longer than a decade by unsolved border issues, the
demarcation of the borderline at sea, the debt of the Ljubljanska Bank
to Croatian clients, the problem of the Krsko nuclear power plant and
Croatia's decision to proclaim an ecological and fishing zone in the
Adriatic.
President Stjepan Mesic will receive Rupel this evening.
(Hina) ms sb