LJUBLJANA, March 8 (Hina) - The chairman of the Slovene Parliament's Foreign Policy Committee, Jelko Kacin, said on Monday that his country had had access to international waters for fifty years.
LJUBLJANA, March 8 (Hina) - The chairman of the Slovene Parliament's
Foreign Policy Committee, Jelko Kacin, said on Monday that his country
had had access to international waters for fifty years.#L#
Speaking at a press conference of his Liberal Democratic Party, Kacin
recalled that on March 7 Slovenia had celebrated Maritime Day
commemorating a resolution adopted by the national assembly in 1991 on
Slovenia as a maritime country.
"That is a very important fact with regard to Croatia," Kacin was
quoted by the Slovene STA news agency as saying. He added that 50
years ago, after Yugoslavia had annexed the so-called Zone B of the
Free Territory of Trieste (with most of the territory going to
Slovenia and a smaller part to Croatia), Slovenia gained "its own
coast, its own sea and the undivided waters of Zone B that belonged to
Yugoslavia."
Kacin pointed out that Slovenia had been guaranteed "direct access to
international waters" for 50 years.
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