Slovenia did inform the Court of Arbitration of its willingness to participate at the hearing in order to explain its view of the events. Slovenia is still convinced that the arbitration procedure should continue; the president of the republic Borut Pahor shares that opinion.
In his missive on the eve of the sixth anniversary of the Slovenia-Croatia meeting, Pahor emphasized the responsibility of those believing into peace and friendship to do their best to re-establish mutual trust.
The European Commission is of the opinion that for settling the border dispute no other serious alternative to arbitration process exists.
In the meantime Budislav Vukas, the arbiter appointed by Croatia, resigned. The Hague Court informed Croatia that it a new arbitrator must be appointed within 15 days, in the opposite case an arbitrator would be appointed by the President of the Court of Arbitration.
Vukas, proclaimed by the prime minister of Croatia Zoran Milanović during the discussion as an independent expert Croatia had no influence on, had his office right in the Croatian embassy. In his statement for the Croatian television he said that resignation was his only option, after the violation of the procedure by Slovenia was revealed, and in compliance with the unanimous support from the Parliament to withdraw from the arbitration.