Ministarstvo vanjskih i europskih poslova

Regarding Slovenian MFA’s press release from 12 May 2006

Regarding Slovenian MFA’s press release from 12 May 2006, the Croatian MFAEI wishes to state that end-May 2002 it officially proposed to the Slovenian side the signing of the Agreement on Determining Road Border Crossings, which Slovenia rejected in a note on 6 December 2002, stating that the issue of the road border crossings between Croatia and Slovenia had been settled in a Minute from May 1994

The Croatian MFAEI wishes to remind that the border crossing Plovanija (Croatia) – Sečovlje (Slovenia) was determined as an international road traffic border crossing, which the Slovenian Government confirmed in September the same year by passing and publishing the Decree on Determining the Border Crossings for International and Interstate Road and Railway Traffic on the Border with the Republic of Croatia.

We wish to draw attention to yesterday’s press release 116/06, stating that the Plovanija border crossing had been the subject of several letters by both countries’ prime ministers, in which the Croatian side confirmed it is located on the Croatian national territory, south of the Dragonja River, and none of which, neither the one from 1994 that the Slovenian side is referring to, described it as a temporary crossing point.

That said crossing is an international border crossing, and not a control point, as is currently claimed by the Slovenian side, can also bee seen at the official web pages of the Slovenian Police in a document entitled Predstavitev slovenskih meja in mejnih prehodov (http://www.policija.si/si/organiziranost/uup/meja/prehodi.html), in which the Slovenian Police confirms it is an international border crossing.



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