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Prime Minister Janez Janša in Paris to discuss with the Slovenian team of lawyers before the Border Arbitration Tribunal

Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Janša today met in Paris with members of the team of lawyers that represent Slovenia before the arbitration tribunal set up to resolve the border dispute with Croatia. The team acquainted him with their activities concerning the drafting of the Memorandum Slovenia has to submit to the arbitration tribunal by 11 February 2013. They also presented him the proposed timetable of further procedural steps to be taken in order to resolve the dispute.

The Prime Minister informed the team members that the Slovenian Government has so far discussed only the Report of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Project Group in charge of the arbitration procedure. In the following days, before the Memorandum is approved by the Government, this Report will also be discussed by the National Assembly's Committee for Foreign Affairs. He stressed the sensitivity of the border issue for Slovenia which require s an appropriate degree of political consensus during the particular steps of the arbitration procedure.