FM Rupel Says Arbitration Would Be a Failure of Diplomacy

Ljubljana, 1 July - Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel believes that taking the Slovenia-Croatia border dispute to an international arbitration forum, which Slovenia does not oppose, is nevertheless tantamount to renouncing diplomacy. "The resolution of a classical foreign policy issue would be entrusted to the judiciary, not diplomacy - what a failure of diplomacy," Rupel wrote in Saturday's Delo.