Croatia was represented by a state secretary in the Foreign Affairs and European Integration Ministry, Hido Biscevic.
The participants in the meeting talked about the current state of affairs in Kosovo and a possible contribution of the SEECP member countries to the negotiating process.
UN Civil Administrator for Kosovo Soren Jessen Petersen informed the present of the situation in the UN-governed province and deputy special UN representative Albert Rohan spoke about the negotiations process.
Representative of SEECP countries said solving the Kosovo issue must not bring into question the level of stability in the region, stressing that all countries were ready to give their contribution to reaching agreement on Kosovo, either within the process of drawing closer to Euro-Atlantic associations, or SEECP activities or the development of bilateral relations.
State Secretary Biscevic spoke about the importance of solving the Kosovo issue with the frameworks of Euro-Atlantic prospects and stressed the need to entirely separate this issue from other regional issues. The Croatian representative informed the present of basic parameters of the activities of Croatia, the next chair of the SEECP.
The province of Kosovo is still legally part of Serbia and Montenegro but it has been under UN protection since NATO air-strikes forced Serb troops out in 1999.
Kosovo Albanians, which make up around 90 percent of the population, want independence while Kosovo Serbs want wide-ranging, self-government for the Serb-inhabited enclaves, which make up 5 per cent of the population.
There are about 1.5 million ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, while about 100,000 Serbs remain following a post-war exodus of non-Albanians.