LJUBLJANA, May 13 (Hina) - Croatia and Slovenia must emphasise issues on which the two countries agree, Croatian President Stjepan Mesic said after he held talks with his Slovenian counterpart Janez Drnovsek on the first day of his
visit to Slovenia.
LJUBLJANA, May 13 (Hina) - Croatia and Slovenia must emphasise
issues on which the two countries agree, Croatian President Stjepan
Mesic said after he held talks with his Slovenian counterpart Janez
Drnovsek on the first day of his visit to Slovenia. #L#
"I believe that this visit will help re-establish a real climate of
friendship and a political atmosphere which would facilitate our
rapprochement. I do not say that we have grown apart, but the public
in both countries have given an emphasis on issues where there was
no agreement, while hundreds of solved issues and those which
connected us have been neglected," Mesic said, urging a change in
this attitude and the promotion of elements which make the two
neighbours closer.
At a news conference, Slovenian President Drnovsek said the
relations with Zagreb would continue to be of great importance for
Slovenian politics, and added that Ljubljana would like to see
Croatia become a European Union member as soon as possible.
Thanks to their relations and economic cooperation, Croatia and
Slovenia could be a stability factor in the region, he said.
Asked about the problem of paying back funds to Croatian clients who
opened accounts with the Ljubljanska Bank in the former Federal
Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY), Drnovsek reiterated the
Slovenian stand that this was a part of problems of the succession
to the ex-SFRY and that it could be solved at additional
negotiations.
He added that in the past years many bilateral issues had been
settled.
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