Croatia not violating treaties

(Hina) – Croatia is not violating anything, responded the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs on Thursday to Montenegro’s complaint over maps in an international tender for hydrocarbons exploration and exploitation in the Adriatic Sea

(Hina) – Croatia is not violating anything, responded the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs on Thursday to Montenegro’s complaint over maps in an international tender for hydrocarbons exploration and exploitation in the Adriatic Sea, a day after Slovenia lodged a complaint as well.

Montenegro complained that it was a unilateral action that prejudged the sea and land border demarcation.

“Croatia is not violating anything,” said the MFEA Spokeswoman Danijela Barišić, citing that tender documentation contained "the treaties Croatia signed with the neighbouring countries which regulate the sea border demarcation."

Said documentation states that the sea border issue with Slovenia "is currently the subject of arbitration" and that in Montenegro's case the documentation mentioned the 2002 protocol between the Croatian government and the government of the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia on a temporary regime along the southern Croatian-Montenegrin border.

Slovenia also complained about the maps, saying on Wednesday that Croatia's tender unilaterally prejudged the solution to their sea border demarcation issue.

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