Parliament to Meet on Urgent Session About Arbitration

04. 02. 2013

Parliament to Meet on Urgent Session About Arbitration


The college of deputy group leaders is expected to meet at 9 AM to formally call an extraordinary plenary session dedicated to the matter. The Foreign Policy Committee is to meet at 10 AM and the entire assembly at 2 PM.

 

Both sessions will be held behind closed doors because the documents that Slovenia needs to submit to the arbitral tribunal in The Hague by 11 February are confidential under the border arbitration agreement.

 

 

It was the government which asked parliament to discuss the memorandum and the subject matter of the border dispute after failing to endorse the proposals drawn up by the Foreign Ministry at Friday's session.

 

Lawmakers will review two proposals - an original one that has been drawn up by the Foreign Ministry's task force for arbitration and a supplemented proposal of the subject matter of the border dispute, PM Janez Janša said on Friday, announcing that the National Assembly would decide on the kind of document Slovenia would submit to the tribunal.

 

But the leader of the opposition Social Democrats (SD), Igor Lukšič, noted on Saturday that under the arbitration agreement the responsibility for defining the subject matter of the dispute was clearly on the government.

 

Source: SloveniaTimes

Parliament to Meet on Urgent Session About Arbitration