The Slovene parliament will convene on Wednesday to discuss, at the opposition's request, the Croatian-Slovenian border arbitration agreement, the parliament's public relations service confirmed to Hina on Tuesday.
The debate on the agreement on international arbitration in the Croatian-Slovenian border dispute is expected to last around ten hours, and Prime Minister Borut Pahor is expected to address the parliament.
Slovenian opposition parties last week collected a sufficient number of signatures to request an extraordinary parliamentary session on the agreement. Commenting then on the request, Pahor said that it would provide an opportunity for the government to once again reiterate its arguments in favour of the arbitration agreement on which Slovenians will decide in a referendum set for June 6.
In the ongoing referendum campaign, the government is advocating the final confirmation of the arbitration agreement so that it could become valid, while the opposition claims that international arbitration in the border dispute with Croatia is bad for Slovenia's interests and should therefore be rejected at the June 6 referendum.
The Croatian-Slovenian border arbitration agreement was signed by the two countries' prime ministers, Jadranka Kosor and Borut Pahor, in Stockholm on 4 November 2009.
