A New Diplomatic Protest Note to Croatia Announced

Dimitrij Rupel threatened with sending a new note because of Slovenia headlines claiming Buje is 'selling Slovenian land'

According to headlines in Slovenian media, Croatian municipality of Buje on the left bank of the Dragonja river is 'selling Slovenian land' to private owners, who happen to be Croatian citizens.

Slovenian Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel reacted to those headlines on Monday on prime time news on Slovenian RT, calling such moves of Croatian authorities 'one-sided' and announced loud protests against them.

In the prime time news Rupel also commented television reports on Croatia's placing border signs close to the border crossing of Topolovec last week. Rupel stressed that such border signs must not be put between two states which still do not have any concrete agreement on crossing the border.

State radio carried Rupel's reaction, and Delo, Slovenian daily, wrote about it too; specially stressing that Slovenia should react to such acts by Croatian authorities. Some Slovenian nationalist leaders like Zmago Jelincic, Josko Joras and Marjan Podobnik particularly agreed with it.