TOMORROW IS D-DAY FOR CROATIA AND SLOVENIA: The Hague Court issues a final verdict on a dispute that lasts for more than a decade

Tomorrow is the "D-Day" for Slovenia and Croatia, as the Arbitrary Tribunal in The Hague, as announced, will state the final verdict on the border dispute between the two countries in the Piran Bay and while Slovenia says that there will be no new negotiations, Croatian state pinnacle claims that they are not concerned with this decision and that it doesn't bind them to the official Zagreb. 

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Namely, in 2015, with Croatia's unanimous decision, they came out of the arbitration dispute because of its compromise, and the Zagreb media reported that Slovenian Prime Minister Miro Cerar will attend tomorrow's special session of the parliamentary committee on foreign policy, which is said that it will be held in the so-called "Deaf room", that is, the room technically protected from possible eavesdropping.

The room is said to be located in the basement of the parliament in Ljubljana. It is also claimed that tensions are growing in Slovenia, and they describe the political and media atmosphere as daunting before the announcement of arbitration judges' decision.

It is also recalled that the Slovenian state summit has called this decision of the arbitration court a historic one in the past few days, and the day is crucial for its country and the maritime orientation of Slovenia, which expects to get contact with the open sea by arbitration.

- The proclamation of the arbitration verdict will be the "third is a charm" in the life of our young state. The first was when Slovenia became independent 26 years ago, the second when it entered the EU and NATO in 2004. The third turning point will take place on Thursday, when our "final borders" with Croatia will be determined, said President of the Parliament Milan Brglez, professor at the Faculty of Political Sciences in Ljubljana and vice president of the party of Prime Minister Cerar, who is known for his excellent knowledge about international relations.

Brglez urged all citizens not to believe in possible spins or false news that will spread around tomorrow and in the coming period. He warned that the official decision of the arbitral tribunal, the Slovenian government and parliament should should be trusted.

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Cerar has named the verdict a historical event for both countries in dispute, as well as the "day D" for Slovenia.

Slovene media has been intensively reporting on arbitration for days, and Slovenian TV announced special news in the prime time related to the arbitration tomorrow and the question of Piran Bay, and the issue of the Piran Bay or Savudrija Vale.

The unique opinion of the official Ljubljana is that an arbitrarily tribunal verdict has no alternative. Former Maritime Trade Law expert Marko Pavliha speaks about the possibility of a lawsuit against Croatia in case of non-compliance with the verdict. 

Namely, for Slovene radio, he stated that the arbitrators do not expect incidents in the implementation of the verdict, and said that in the first days after its announcement, Slovenia must act with restraint, using persistently diplomatic, not other means.

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- But if Croatia continues to reject any idea of accepting an arbitration verdict, then Slovenia, as the ultimate asset, should think about the lawsuit against Croatia before the European Union Court in Luxembourg - Pavliha thinks.

On Thursday, Minister of Foreign Affairs Karl Erjavec will be present in the Hague as a representative of the Slovenian government to attend a reading of the verdict, and, according to the media, he is personally very interested because the opposition tried unsuccessfully to replace him two years ago, at the time of the so-called,  arbitration affair, when the footage of the interviews of his associate at the time, Simona Drenik, with the Slovenian judge at the time Jernej Sekolec was published, in which they discussed, inter alia, about the strategy of influence on judges and the inadmissible additional introduction of documents in the court file.

However, among ordinary citizens, there is little interest in the verdict, perhaps, because of the fact that Slovenians spend most of their holidays in Croatia.

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Fishermen and tourists, most of them from Slovenia, like the weather of mournful mood, reluctantly publicly talk about Slovenian-Croatian relations in anticipation of Thursday and the decision on border arbitration.

Everybody is secretly afraid of the excessive display of "muscles" on both sides of the border.

Daniele Kolec, 53, a well-known Umarian fisherman, secretly hopes that the arbitration decision, whatever it might be, will not bring an unwanted incidents, but hundreds of fishermen are ready to react, if they need to.

(Telegraf.co.uk / Tanjug)