Slovenian Prime Minister Boris Pahor said on Thursday that all the agreements between Slovenia and Croatia since his last bilateral meeting with Croatian Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor at the Slovenian lakeside resort of Bohinj, were being implemented according to plan.
"We concluded that everything that had been agreed in Bohinj was going according to plan. We have stepped up efforts to resolve all the outstanding issues. I think we will manage to resolve the Ljubljanska Banka issue within the agreed deadline," Pahor said at a press conference.
Pahor and Kosor met on Wednesday in Tripoli where they attended the 41st anniversary of the Libyan revolution.
The two prime ministers agreed at their meeting in Bohinj in late July that a solution to the problem of Slovenia's Ljubljanska Banka and its Croatian depositors would be found within three months, and that the issue would be pursued by government representatives and experts.
Slovenian Foreign Minister Samuel Zbogar said earlier this week that a solution to the Ljubljanska Banka issue had not yet been found, expressing optimism that it would be found by the end of October as agreed by the two prime ministers. Zbogar said that a bilateral commission was to meet soon to deal with the remaining unresolved issues between the two countries.
Slovenia seeks to close the issue of Ljubljanska Banka depositors in Croatia and settle the issue of operation of Nova Ljubljanska Banka in Croatia within Croatia's EU membership negotiations. Ljubljana maintains that the issue of Croatian savings deposits is a matter of succession to the former Yugoslavia in which other former Yugoslav republics should be involved as well.
