{"id":21589,"date":"2023-02-01T16:39:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T15:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/?post_type=news&p=21589"},"modified":"2023-02-02T09:43:06","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T08:43:06","slug":"president-milanovic-meets-with-president-of-slovenia-natasa-pirc-musar-we-must-bring-relations-in-the-region-into-calmer-waters-and-continue-the-brdo-brijuni-process","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/en\/news\/president-milanovic-meets-with-president-of-slovenia-natasa-pirc-musar-we-must-bring-relations-in-the-region-into-calmer-waters-and-continue-the-brdo-brijuni-process\/","title":{"rendered":"President Milanovi\u0107 Meets with President of Slovenia Nata\u0161a Pirc Musar: We must bring relations in the region into calmer waters and continue the Brdo-Brijuni Process"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cThe conversation with the President of Slovenia was pleasant, friendly and substantive, a prelude to a series of such talks. The topics primarily dealt with our mutual relations,\u201d the President of the Republic of Croatia Zoran Milanovi\u0107 said on Wednesday after holding his first meeting with the President of the Republic of Slovenia Nata\u0161a Pirc Musar, who is on a working visit to Croatia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Croatian President said that apart from Croatia-Slovenia relations, they also discussed the situation in the region and the future of the Brdo-Brijuni Initiative, which was launched during the term of former Croatian President Ivo Josipovi\u0107 at the initiative of former Slovenian President Borut Pahor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe intentions in view of this Initiative are the same, namely the integration and well-being of the countries of this area, the Western Balkans. We need to bring some things into a bit calmer waters in order for the Initiative to continue. If you ask me, it is possible, but those who are participating need to be asked as well,\u201d said President Milanovi\u0107, explaining that the holding of future Brdo-Brijuni Process meetings depends on the will of other participants of the Initiative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Likewise, the Croatian President welcomes the proposal to hold the next meeting of the Brdo-Brijuni Process in North Macedonia. \u201cI think this is a job that the President of Slovenia could perhaps do better than me in the months ahead \u2013 to see what people think, to prepare the meeting so it does not end in a quarrel of out-of-tune instruments like on the last two occasions when we had neither a joint statement nor a declaration,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a statement after the meeting with the Slovenian President, President Milanovi\u0107 assessed that the good cooperation between Croatia and Slovenia can intensify even more than in the last two years. \u201cI think that relations are better than they were three or four years ago, especially with Croatia\u2019s entry into Schengen. I would like to once again thank Slovenia for its support, and the President of Slovenia for taking the time to come to Bregana on the 1st<\/sup> of January this year to jointly mark an important and useful event for both Croatia and Slovenia,\u201d said the Croatian President.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After her meeting with President Milanovi\u0107, the President of the Republic of Slovenia Nata\u0161a Pirc Musar said they are both aware of several unresolved issues, but expressed her view that Croatia and Slovenia will be able to resolve issues in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She emphasized that she is committed to continuing the Brdo-Brijuni Process because she wants Slovenia and Croatia, as the countries that have achieved the most in this area in the region, to engage in dialogue with other countries in the region. \u201cSlovenia has shown that it can play a significant role in bringing Bosnia and Herzegovina and other countries in the Western Balkans closer to the European Union. Croatia has the same standing here,\u201d said the Slovenian President, who thanked President Milanovi\u0107 for continuing to work together on the Initiative, a joint endeavour of Slovenia and Croatia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As for the holding of the next meeting of the Brdo-Brijuni Process, she stated that President Stevo Pendarovski offered to host it in North Macedonia. \u201cAt that meeting, which will take place at the end of this year, I would like to open topics that are not so political and ideological. I told President Milanovi\u0107 what my silent wish is \u2013 more emphasis on young people, because young people are the ones who are leaving this region in huge numbers. The mission of the President and me personally as President is to see what else we can do to make people in this region better off. And politics sometimes has to take a step back, devote itself less to ideological topics and realize that the platform that will be able to create some other content in the process is in young people. I believe in the rule of law and I think that the rule of law is extremely important, not only at the national level but also in international relations. Thank you again for a very pleasant reception,\u201d the President of the Republic of Slovenia concluded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Responding to a journalist\u2019s question on whether they had discussed the war in Ukraine, President Milanovi\u0107 said they did not. \u201cWe didn\u2019t talk about Ukraine, which doesn\u2019t mean we won\u2019t,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When asked about his recent statement that Kosovo was \u201ctaken from Serbia,\u201d President Milanovi\u0107 said that he could have stated that Serbia was left without Kosovo. \u201cI don\u2019t think I have to assure anyone of my attachment and affection toward the Kosovo Albanians. In the meantime, Kosovo has been recognized, Croatia was among the first to recognize it, and I use the opportunity where I can to convince people and \u2026 statesmen to recognize Kosovo if they have not done so,\u201d he said among other things. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn order for Serbia to come to the West, where it is welcome, some things must change. The situation in Ukraine is the beginning of the end of the apparent Serbian-Russian romance in which Serbia will realize it is a cheated lover. Serbia and Kosovo bother Russia. Russia will have to recognise Kosovo sooner or later or pretend that it recognises it in order to legalise what it\u2019s doing in Ukraine. And where is Serbia in this? They must realize that they are bothering Russia and that there is no love there, but exclusively the relationship of interests, where they served Russia in one period as it implemented some of its plans that are against international law,\u201d President Milanovi\u0107 clarified, adding that Serbia will have to recognize Kosovo in some way and that Kosovar authorities will have to give a status to the Community of Serb Municipalities in northern Kosovo. \u201cTherefore, my message to the tabloids in Serbia is: Curb your enthusiasm,\u201d President Milanovi\u0107 concluded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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