ZAGREB (Croatia), June 29 (SeeNews) – The Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in the Hague awarded Slovenia on Thursday control over most of Piran Gulf and a corridor to international waters in a territorial and maritime dispute with Croatia.
Slovenia has been granted access to high seas via a 2.5 nautical miles wide corridor, the tribunal's chair, Judge Gilbert Guillaume, said in a live broadcast.
The junction linking Slovenian territorial waters with international waters, which the country did not previously have, will be an area in which vessels and planes will have the same rights as at high sea, Guillaume noted.
Slovenia was also granted control over much of the contested Piran Gulf.
Earlier on Thursday, Croatia's prime minister Andrej Plenkovic said the final ruling will have no affect on the country.
"Whatever the verdict, Croatia will not be bound to it in any way," Plenkovic said during a government session aired live on its website.