"Croatia and a majority of its neighbours have not yet completed border demarcation, we have tentative solutions. We want to change that and solve that but not to the detriment of Croatia. I believe that we know which Croatian interests are, however, until we conclude bilateral agreements or until arbitration solves it, we don't have clearly defined borders in the formal and legal sense," PM Milanovic said at the beginning of the meeting of his cabinet.

Milanovic said that Croatia did not make claims on other's territory but it could not say that something was its own as long as the matter was not solved by bilateral agreements.

We should solve the issue of the borderline with Slovenia, and I believe this will happen soon given the arbitration we agreed on, as well as with Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia, the Croatian premier said.

He said that it was Croatia's initiative to solve the border issue with its neighbours that are not members of the European Union before Croatia joins the EU.

We respect our neighbours and we will abide by the international law and take Croatia's interests into account, he added.

He said that the Croatia-Bosnia border delineation was exclusively a matter of the relations between Zagreb and Sarajevo, and that no one else, not the European Commission, had been engaged in the talks.

It is important to apply the same criteria to everyone and we will stick to it, he added.