The Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS) has called on its followers to vote against the Slovenia-Croatia border arbitration agreement at a referendum which will be held later this year.
The strongest opposition party in Slovenia issued a statement on its web site urging Slovenians to be against the ratification of the said agreement at the referendum.
The SDS cited several reasons for the disapproval, highlighting its fear that an arbitration tribunal engaged to solve the border dispute between these two countries would take into account, first of all, the international law and would ignore the principle of equity with historical and geographical circumstances on which Slovenia insists.
The referendum is to be held on 6 June and its outcome is binding.
The Slovenian parliament recently ratified the border arbitration deal.
Croatia ratified it in November 2009 after Croatian and Slovenian Prime Ministers, Jadranka Kosor and Borut Pahor, signed it earlier that month in Stockholm.
