Croatia agrees to border deal with Slovenia & Nuclear Power Plant

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Croatia agrees to border deal with Slovenia & Nuclear Power Plant 

Company Executives State Case For Nuclear Power

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Croatia agrees to border deal with Slovenia & Nuclear Power Plant 



ZAGREB, July 19 (Reuters) - Croatia and Slovenia on Thursday approved 

landmark draft agreements on their sea and land borders and a nuclear 

plant owned by both countries, settling the last issues in a 10 year 

dispute between the two countries. 



Croatian radio said the way had been paved for a deal that must be 

ratified by their parliaments. 



The border dispute has marred relations between the two countries 

since their independence from the former Yugoslavia, and resolving it 

is a precondition for their faster integration into Europe. 



The main point of contention had been Slovenia's access to 

international waters, and a series of minor disputes along the land 

border. 



Croatian Prime Minister Ivica Racan and his Slovenian counterpart 

Janez Drnovsek reached a solution to these issues during a month of 

intense negotiations. 



Both men were senior communist party leaders during the last days of 

the former Yugoslavia and knew each other well. 



Racan presented the results of the talks to the Croatian parliament's 

foreign affairs committee on Wednesday, saying the agreement on the 

nuclear plant was completed and ready for signing. 



But he was less optimistic about the parliamentarians' reaction to 

the border agreement, on which Croatia has made a major concession. 



"On the basis of today's atmosphere at the session of the 

(parliamentary) committee, I don't think it will be easy to secure 

support for the agreement," Racan said. 



"Given that inter-state agreements need a two-thirds support in 

parliament, we will have to wait with this one," Racan was quoted as 

saying in Thursday's newspapers. 



The Slovenian government approved the draft agreement on Thursday. 



Drnovsek said he was confident the deal would get support in 

parliament as the leaders of the major parties had supported the 

negotiations. 



The two countries declared independence from the former Yugoslavia in 

June 1991 but could not agree on the delineation of their maritime 

border in the bay of Piran. 



Drnovsek and Racan also reached agreement on the Krsko nuclear power 

plant, built on Slovenian territory but owned equally by Croatia and 

Slovenia. 

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International Nuclear Forum-Climate Change: Company Executives State 

Case For Nuclear Power

  

BONN, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 18, 2001--International Nuclear 

Industry leaders from around the world have rallied to encourage 

negotiators at the UN climate change talks in Bonn to recognize the 

essential role that nuclear electricity plays in controlling 

greenhouse gas emissions. 



Ninety-nine senior executives from various industry sectors including 

utilities, mining, technology, manufacturing and engineering have 

endorsed a statement supporting the use of nuclear power in the 

global effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The companies 

involved are based in Australia, Canada, Europe, Japan, Korea, 

Russia, South Africa and the United States. 



The statement reflects the broad support for nuclear around the world 

as a vital technology for addressing climate change. 



The executives point out that nuclear electricity generation produces 

virtually no greenhouse gas emissions and are calling on governments 

negotiating an international emission control regime to acknowledge 

nuclear electricity as a necessary and uniquely effective part of the 

solution to the issue of climate change. 



By avoiding the need to burn fossil fuel, nuclear electricity 

generation worldwide avoids emissions of about 1.8 billion tonnes of 

CO2 a year. In the European Union nuclear energy accounts for the 

avoidance of 550 million tonnes - a saving equivalent to taking 140 

million cars off the road. In the United States, without nuclear 

electricity the emissions reductions to achieve baseline levels in 

the original climate change treaty would double. In Japan, nuclear 

avoids 20% of the total current emissions. 



The executive statement complements ongoing activities of the 

International Nuclear Forum (INF), an umbrella group of national and 

international nuclear associations from around the world. 



The INF is made up of the Canadian Nuclear Association (CNA), the 

European Atomic Forum (FORATOM), the European Nuclear Society (ENS), 

the Japan Atomic Industrial Forum (JAIF), the Korea Atomic Industrial 

Forum (KAIF), the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) in the United 

States, and the World Nuclear Association (WNA). 



The statement is available on the World Nuclear Association website: 

http://www.world-nuclear.org/policy/sigdoc.pdf. 





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