ZAGREB, February 16, 2020 – Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will visit Zagreb at the end of April and Croatia sees Russia as a partner with whom one should talk, Croatian Foreign and European Affairs Minister Gordan Grlić Radman said in Munich on Saturday.
Grlić Radman met with Lavrov on the margins of the Munich Security Conference 2020.
He later told reporters that they discussed the two countries’ expectations from the Zagreb visit.
“It is in our interest to know what Russia’s positions are. We care about partner relations,” Grlić Radman said.
He also met with his Slovenian counterpart Miro Cerar, but said that they did not have the time to discuss the two countries’ border dispute that has been burdening their relations since the break-up of the Yugoslav federation.
Radman said the talks with Cerar focused on EU enlargement and Croatia’s current EU presidency.
Slovenia insists on the implementation of an international arbitration ruling on the border dispute which Croatia does not recognise, offering bilateral talks on the border instead.
The Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg in late January said it did not have jurisdiction to rule on Slovenia’s complaint against Croatia in which it alleged that the non-implementation of the border arbitration award breached EU law.
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