Slovenian Foreign Minister Karl Erjavec said on Friday he expected the problem of transferred foreign currency savings that Croatian citizens had in now-defunct Ljubljanska Banka's (LB) Zagreb branch to be solved under the auspices of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in Basel, through mediators who will propose a solution to Croatia and Slovenia.
Erjavec and Croatian Foreign Minister Vesna Pusic in Slovenia on Friday signed a joint letter asking the Bank for International Settlements to sponsor negotiations on transferred foreign currency savings in LB.
Financial experts Zdravko Rogic of Croatia and France Arhar of Slovenia will take part in the talks on the transferred savings under the BIS' auspices.
Erjavec told Slovenian Television it was important to "take that problem with Croatia off the agenda."
He said Croatia and Slovenia still had different positions on the two governments' memorandum of agreement which was signed in Mokrice, on March 11, by Croatian Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic and the then Slovenian prime minister Janez Jansa.
Slovenia considers the memorandum to be an international agreement above national legislation, adopted under the sponsorship of the European Union. Slovenia also believes the problems of old foreign currency savings should not be resolved before Croatian courts, Erjavec told Slovenian Television.
