Vecernji

Although Croatian President Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic has announced the purchase of new military jets for Croatia's air force, the idea is still far from realisation, a defence analyst said.

Grabar Kitarovic announced the news on Saturday in an interview for the daily newspaper Vecernji list.

Bozo Petrov, vice prime minister and president of the junior government party, Bridge of the Independent Lists, MOST, said on Friday that his ministers and MPs will vote to impeach Tomislav Karamarko, Vice-Prime Minister and president of the leading government party, the Croatian Democratic Union, HDZ.

Croatia's energy company INA said it will "closely monitor" the situation in Syria after the governor of the Syrian province of Homs urged the company to return to the oil fields it owns in the region.

Representatives of Croatia and Slovenia will meet again at the Permanent Court of Arbitration, PCA, in The Hague on Thursday to try and resolve their issues over maritime borders in the Piran Gulf, off the two neighbouring countries' coasts - a dispute that dates back to the break-up of Yugoslavia.

Croatian Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic scheduled a meeting for Monday with the heads of all 13 parliamentary groups to update them after Zagreb said last week that it may pull out of international arbitration with Slovenia over the Piran Gulf following revelations of secret conversations between a judge and the Slovene representative.

The arbitation process between Slovenia and Croatia in the Hague over the waters of the Piran Gulf in Istria was in doubt on Friday, after the Slovene judge on the panel and the Slovenian representative resigned - and after Croatia warned it may back out of the process entirely.

Croatian President Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic headed for Germany on Tuesday on a mission to patch up ties with its traditional great power ally.

In an interview for the daily newspaper Vecernji list, the President said that she aimed to "rebuild the partnership" between the two countries.