Croatian and Slovenian Foreign Ministers Vesna Pusic and Karl Erjavec will meet in Otocac na Krki on Wednesday to address the issue of the now defunct Ljubljanska Banka and its Croatian clients, the Croatian Foreign Affairs and European Integration Ministry said in a statement on Monday.
The meeting will also be attended by the two countries' financial experts Zdravko Rogic and Franc Arhar.
Earlier today during her visit to Brussels, Pusic said there were three or four possible ways for resolving the Ljubljanska Banka issue and that she, Erjavec and the financial experts would discuss on Wednesday.
Pusic also commented on recent claims by Slovenia's Ambassador to Croatia Vojko Volk in an interview with the Slovenian Delo daily, that the Ljubljana Banka's receivables from Croatian companies are four times higher than transferred Croatian savings were.
Our financial expert has data issued by the Slovenian government which indicates that this ratio is in fact the opposite. It is not up to foreign ministers to rely on guess work, it is up to the financial experts to determine relations based on relevant documentation, she said.
Pusic said that offsetting debts was only one of the possibilities and that there were at least three more.
After their meeting in Brussels on 31 January, Erjavec told the press that given the current political situation in Slovenia, he could not guarantee that the Slovenian parliament would ratify Croatia's EU accession treaty on time if the solution to the Ljubljanska Banka issue was not found in February.
Pusic said today that "both sides have good will to resolve this."
