Horvat said he was responding to Croatian Foreign Minister Vesna Pusic's statement that she did not see how the debt issue and the ratification of Croatia's EU Accession Treaty could be related.
He said the Slovenian parliament believed that "solving the Ljubljanska Banka issue and honouring international commitments and agreements is related to Slovenian deputies' deciding on the ratification of the Croatian Accession Treaty."
He added that his committee had recently reached such a conclusion unanimously.