The Joint Committee for the Distribution of Diplomatic and Consular Property of the former Yugoslavia agreed in Ljubljana on Friday on the schedule for the division of the assets. While residences are to be handed over by the end of June 2007, embassies and consulates will get new owners by the end of this year.
According to a Foreign Ministry press release, Slovenia is entitled to 14% of some 120 embassies, consulates and residencies that constitute the diplomatic property of the former joint state.
Slovenia has so far got all that it was entitled to according to the succession agreement in countries which are members of the OECD, while the assets in other parts of the world are still to be divided.
Slovenia will soon take possession of the residency in Rome, consulates general in Austria's Klagenfurt and Italy's Milan, while it had already been allocated the embassy in Washington as part of a previous agreement, representatives of the Foreign Ministry explained.
The ministry further said that the details of the handover in Rome and Milan were still to be arranged as Serbia first needed to appoint a new government in order to give its delegation a full mandate - this would also enable the joint committee to sign final declaration.
The successor states which signed a framework succession agreement in 2001 - Macedonia, Serbia-Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia - have so far managed to agree on the division of 44 properties.
The next meeting of the committee will be held in Serbia in mid-May and will see the talks expanding to European assets outside the OECD area and to assets in Latin America, Asia, Northern Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa.
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