Croatian Foreign and European Affairs Minister Vesna Pusic and her Slovenian counterpart Karl Erjavec are likely to send a joint letter to the Basel-based Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and to other countries-successors to the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) in relation to efforts to solve the issue of the now-defunct Ljubljanska Banka (LB), the Croatian foreign ministry's spokeswoman Danijela Barisic told the press on Tuesday.
Pusic and Erjavec on Monday attended a ministerial meeting of the European Union's Foreign Affairs Council in Luxembourg and they met on the margins of that gathering, while on Tuesday they left Luxembourg for Brussels which is hosting a NATO conference of foreign ministers.
Erjavec was quoted by the Slovenian news agency STA as saying that he and Pusic had in general agreed on sending the letter to the BIS and the remaining SFRY successors.
They also agreed on convening a new meeting of the Slovenian expert France Arhar and his Croatian counterpart Zdravko Rogic who were hired by the respective governments to help solve the LB issue.
In 2012, Pusic had suggested to Erjavec that they should sent a joint letter to the Basel-headquartered BIS.
On 11 March, Zagreb and Ljubljana signed a memorandum of understanding on this issue.
According to the document, the two governments are committed to finding a comprehensive solution as soon as possible for the matter. For that purpose, they have undertaken to continue with negotiations under the BIS auspices in line with the succession treaty.
