Slovenia Seizes Piran Bay With A New Map

According to the map of the official Slovene Environmental Protection Agency, the entire Piran Bay belongs to Slovenia.

The Croatian Foreign Affairs and European Integration Ministry assessed on Monday that the map published on the website of the Agency of the Republic of Slovenia for Environmental Protection, which in part of the Slovene Ministry for Environment, was not decent was legally non-founded, which shows that the entire Piran Bay belongs to Slovenia.

- The Croatian Foreign Affairs and European Integration Ministry assessed that the map was not decent, was legally non-founded and, as it is especially visible near the charted border at sea, contrary to international law. Which the Croatian side has previously pointed out several times and protested against – the ministry`s press release reads, HINA news agency reports.

- Such non decently showed border at the sea and determined points at land clearly show that various views are linked to the issue of demarcation between the two states and clearly shows that the real way to solve this open issue was to take it to the International Court in The Hague, in accordance with the agreement of the Croatian and Slovenian PMs from Bled, which took place in August 2007 – the announcement concludes.

Croatian president reacted

Croatia cannot revoke documents with which it proves its rights in case of possible arbitrage concerning the border with Slovenia, and one of the possible solutions in freezing the Croatian-Slovene border dispute for a certain period, Mesic said.

Small countries must lead a politics of principles, Mesic said, adding that Croatia did not raise the unsolved territorial issue when Slovenia was accessing the European Union, because Croatia`s goal was for Slovenia to access it as soon as possible.

Seeing how Croatia and Slovenia have different interpretations of Badinter`s Commission on the border, Mesic said, someone has to arbitrate, clearly. The Croatian president believes the International Court of Justice should do this, whose decision Croatia accepts in advance. If Slovenia will share the same position, then there is no dispute, Mesic said.

- If open sea would reach Slovenia, they we lose our border with Italy, and wee need that border because need to remain a country which borders with Italy. And then they have fabricated an isolated triangle at sea which would be Croatia. However, you cannot take a triangle or a quadrangle at an ocean and say it belongs to some other country and now, it is extra territorial. This cannot be solved like this at sea, because the border must be connected with the land and this was a defect of that proposal – President Mesic said.