Croatia and Slovenia will submit their memoranda with arguments on their border dispute on 11 February 2013, it was agreed at the first procedural meeting between judges of the arbitration tribunal that will decide on the two countries' border dispute and representatives of Croatia and Slovenia, the permanent arbitration tribunal reported.
At the meeting, held in The Hague, the arbitration tribunal and representatives of Croatia and Slovenia accepted the deadlines for arbitration on the border dispute. The two countries agreed to approach the arbitration method on 4 November 2009 in Stockholm where they signed the arbitration deal.
At the meeting in The Hague it was agreed that Croatia and Slovenia would submit their memoranda with arguments on 11 February 2013 and nine months later, namely on 11 November 2013, the two sides will submit their counter-memoranda, namely their responses to the original memoranda. The debate will be held in the spring of 2015, the permanent arbitration tribunal reported after the meeting in The Hague.
On January 17 Croatia and Slovenia agreed on the appointment of Gilbert Guillaume of France as president of the arbitral tribunal and Bruno Simma of Germany and Vaughan Lowe of the United Kingdom as tribunal members. The decision was welcomed by the two governments as the first important step in establishing the tribunal.
Last October the Croatian government appointed international law expert Budislav Vukas as the Croatian national arbiter. Slovenia's representative is Jernej Sekolec.
