Erjavec was to have met Croatian Foreign Minister Vesna Pusic in Zagreb that day, but the meeting was cancelled because Jansa withdrew Erjavec from negotiations on a solution to the issue of the now-defunct Slovenian bank. Erjavec said on Tuesday the agreement would have been ratified at that meeting.
Jansa said Erjavec was announcing his meetings with Pusic and progress in the negotiations to show his negotiating success ahead of an election congress of the DESUS party at which he hoped to be re-elected president.
Jansa said the meeting in Zagreb had no fixed date and that the two countries each had "their own schedule" as to how to complete the negotiations on Ljubljanska Banka.
"These are serious matters and I couldn't let someone subordinate them to partial, party interests," he said, reiterating that he withdrew Erjavec from the negotiations because of his frequent announcements that his DESUS party would soon leave the government, which Jansa said undermined Slovenia's credibility.
Jansa said he and Croatian PM Zoran Milanovic had discussed the bank issue a number of times and that Milanovic stuck to the agreement on discretion and did not "shout it from the rooftops."
Erjavec said on Tuesday he and Pusic had agreed the bulk of the solution to Ljubljanska and that the two governments planned to adopt the solution in early March, when the Slovenian parliament was to have ratified Croatia's European Union accession treaty, but Jansa said things had not progressed that far and that a few more steps were necessary, on which his meeting with Milanovic scheduled for March 10 depended. He added, however, that it could be done by then.
Although Erjavec said he was informing Jansa regularly on the developments in the bank negotiations, Jansa said some matters had still not been agreed.
He also said that there was "still enough time" to ratify Croatia's EU accession treaty.