evidence: Since the creation of the two states, Slovenia had displayed more interest to have the border settled. Bilateral negotiations did not yield any result. The primary reason was that the two sides held different view on how the maritime border should be settled. Croatia’s position is that the border in the Bay of Piran/Savudrijska vala should be established in accordance with the equidistance line on the basis of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). Slovenia, on the other hand, claimed the integrity of the Piran Bay/Savudrijska vala under Slovenian sovereignty and requested access to high seas. [...] The border dispute with Montenegro relates to the identification of the border at land and at sea. In 2002 Croatia and Montenegro signed a Protocol on an interim regime provisionally settling the border. The controversial points were demarcation at the Prevlaka peninsula and in the Bay of Kotor. Prevlaka had strategic importance for Croatia during the war in the 1990s. In 1992 Croatia and then Federal Republic of Yugoslavia reached an agreement to demilitarize Prevlaka and put it under UN monitoring. The UN mission was effectively ended by the signing of the Protocol on the interim regime in 2002.