Slovenia's Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday afternoon that the financial experts appointed by the Slovenian and the Croatian governments to deal with the issue of the Ljubljanska Banka (LB) and deposits of Croatian clients had not found any compromise solution, and the ministry reiterated Slovenia's insistence that Croatia withdraw the power of attorney for lawsuits against LB before Croatian courts.
After Croatian Foreign Minister Vesna Pusic said earlier in the day that the experts Zdravko Rogic and France Arhar had formulated a compromise solution, Slovenia's ministry responded later that since their last meeting in Bled on 4 October, they had made no new proposals.
The statement issued on the ministry's web site recalled that Foreign Minister Karl Erjavec had already stated that Ljubljana expected Croatia to withdraw the power of attorney it had given to the Zagrebacka Banka and the Privredna Banka to sue LB before Croatian courts.
"It is not possible to conduct negotiations in parallel with the continuation of lawsuits on the same matter before Croatian courts," the ministry recalled.
Slovenia makes the start of the ratification of the Croatia-EU accession treaty conditional on this issue.
