The Slovenian government has appointed a four-member team of lawyers for monitoring the procedure before an arbitration tribunal to be set up to tackle the demarcation of the border between Slovenia and Croatia in accordance with the 2009 border arbitration agreement between the two neighbours, the Ljubljana based Delo daily and Slovenian Television reported on Wednesday.
Apart from professor at the Ljubljana Law School Vasilika Sancin, who dealt with the issue in the past, the team also includes three foreign legal experts in international law - Michael Wood of Great Britain, Rodman Bundy of the U.S. and Alain Pellet of France. The four-member team will be led by Pellet, Slovenian Television reported.
All procedures regarding the implementation of the bilateral arbitration deal, under which the border dispute would be resolved by the five-member arbitration tribunal, will start after the signing Croatia's Accession Treaty with the European Union next month.
The Slovenian media said that the arbitration procedure begins in "sensitive times", immediately after the parliamentary elections which both countries scheduled for 4 December
The five-member tribunal will consist of one representative from Croatia, one from Slovenia and three from the European Commission.
Slovenia will be represented by legal expert Jernej Sekolec and Croatia by international law expert Budislav Vukas.
