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04LJUBLJANA1080
2004-11-30 11:46:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Ljubljana
Cable title:  

SLOVENIA FIRM ON MAINTAINING ICTY CONDITIONALITY

Tags:  KAWC PREL PGOV ICTY 
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C O N F I D E N T I A L LJUBLJANA 001080 

SIPDIS


E.O. 12958: DECL: 11/30/2014
TAGS: KAWC PREL PGOV ICTY
SUBJECT: SLOVENIA FIRM ON MAINTAINING ICTY CONDITIONALITY
ON CROATIA

REF: STATE 254097

Classified By: Ambassador Thomas B. Robertson, Reasons
1.4 (b) and (d)

C O N F I D E N T I A L LJUBLJANA 001080

SIPDIS


E.O. 12958: DECL: 11/30/2014
TAGS: KAWC PREL PGOV ICTY
SUBJECT: SLOVENIA FIRM ON MAINTAINING ICTY CONDITIONALITY
ON CROATIA

REF: STATE 254097

Classified By: Ambassador Thomas B. Robertson, Reasons
1.4 (b) and (d)


1. (C) Pol/Econ Chief delivered reftel points to the Head
of the Western Balkans Department at the MFA, Peter Reberc.
Reberc is recently returned from eight years in Rome first at
the Slovene Mission to the Holy See and then the bilateral
Mission. He explained that the Government of Slovenia is
very concerned about the poor precedent that would be set in
the region if Croatia were not held firmly to the ICTY
conditionality prior to opening negotiations with the EU. It
was his personal view that once negotiations opened, a great
deal of leverage on the ICTY issue would be lost. Reberc
pledged to share the U.S. view on this issue with State
Secretary Logar at tomorrow morning's CORPRER preparatory

SIPDIS
meeting.


2. (C) On Slovenia-Croatia relations in general, Reberc says
that he has been fighting an uphill battle in his two months
on the job. He hopes that with the return of Dimitrij Rupel
to the Foreign Ministry, he will be able to weed out the
emotional "public psychosis" from the real political issues
with Croatia. In his view, Slovenia should be presenting a
more positive, forward-looking face to Croatia than has been
the recent case.
ROBERTSON


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