The chair of the Slovenian parliamentary committee on foreign affairs, Jozef Horvat, said on Wednesday that solving the issue of foreign savings of Croatian depositors in the now-defunct Ljubljanska Banka was a commitment Croatia had already made and that in that sense this was related to Croatia's accession to the European Union.
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.
