Sanader: Rupel Has Crossed the Line

January 30th, 2008

Zagreb, January 30 (CP) — The PM Ivo Sanader has said that the Slovene Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel has crossed the line of in regular diplomatic relations between two countries.

Sanader denied Rupel’s claims that Croatia had severed diplomatic ties with Slovenia and said the only person doing that was Rupel, himself.

Sanader added that back in August of 2007, the chief Croatian EU negotiator Vladimir Drobnjak requested a meeting at the Slovene Foreign Ministry, but had still until this day not been allocated a time-slot.

Sanader said that, for example, France, which is to head the EU as of July 1 had allocated a time-slot for Croatia back in December.