Post by MiG on Feb 4, 2008 20:20:02 GMT -5
Slovenia Unofficially Blocked Negotiations – PM
The prime minister stressed there was an unofficial blockade in three chapters of Croatia’s negotiations for access to the European Union.
ZAGREB, CROATIA - Ahead of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) presidency session, Prime Minister Ivo Sanader commented on recent articles that Croatia’s negotiations with the European Union had been blocked in several chapters.
There is an unofficial blockade in three chapters; the issue of fishery, the chapter on freedom, justice and security and the chapter on joint foreign affairs and security policy, Sanader said.
The prime minister also commented on ZERP (Protected Ecology and Fishery Zone in the Croatian Adriatic) and reiterated that the government was adamant in its stance that Croatia had the right to apply the zone according to the UN’s sea rights convention.
Sanader again urged Rome and Ljubljana to set to solve the problem issues they have with the ZERP.
Croatia’s chief negotiator Vladimir Drobnjak also commented on the course of Croatia’s negotiations with the EU, saying it could not be described in one sentence.
‘ZERP is taking toll in the dynamics of negotiations with the EU’
- Negotiations vary from chapter to chapter. We are working intensely on 30 chapters and the situation is neither rosy nor black – Drobnjak said. He stressed that negotiations were not blocked, as some media wrote.
The three said chapters are not blocked, Drobnjak said, adding that during last year Croatia had more than 20 chapters closed.
He did admit that the ZERP was taking a toll on the dynamics of the negotiations and on their intensity. Only one country blocked three chapters for Croatia, that is, Slovenia, who remained alone in its stance because after a screening process, the European Commission said Croatia was prepared to carry out the said three chapters, Drobnjak said.
The prime minister stressed there was an unofficial blockade in three chapters of Croatia’s negotiations for access to the European Union.
ZAGREB, CROATIA - Ahead of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) presidency session, Prime Minister Ivo Sanader commented on recent articles that Croatia’s negotiations with the European Union had been blocked in several chapters.
There is an unofficial blockade in three chapters; the issue of fishery, the chapter on freedom, justice and security and the chapter on joint foreign affairs and security policy, Sanader said.
The prime minister also commented on ZERP (Protected Ecology and Fishery Zone in the Croatian Adriatic) and reiterated that the government was adamant in its stance that Croatia had the right to apply the zone according to the UN’s sea rights convention.
Sanader again urged Rome and Ljubljana to set to solve the problem issues they have with the ZERP.
Croatia’s chief negotiator Vladimir Drobnjak also commented on the course of Croatia’s negotiations with the EU, saying it could not be described in one sentence.
‘ZERP is taking toll in the dynamics of negotiations with the EU’
- Negotiations vary from chapter to chapter. We are working intensely on 30 chapters and the situation is neither rosy nor black – Drobnjak said. He stressed that negotiations were not blocked, as some media wrote.
The three said chapters are not blocked, Drobnjak said, adding that during last year Croatia had more than 20 chapters closed.
He did admit that the ZERP was taking a toll on the dynamics of the negotiations and on their intensity. Only one country blocked three chapters for Croatia, that is, Slovenia, who remained alone in its stance because after a screening process, the European Commission said Croatia was prepared to carry out the said three chapters, Drobnjak said.
Source: www.javno.com/en/croatia/clanak.php?id=120592