Voicing confidence that Prodi's arrival to the leading position of Italy's executive authority would mark a new incentive to progress, unity and well-being in Italy, Sanader underlined the importance of Croatia's relations with its neighbour Italy.
Sanader highlighted the two countries' friendly past and common European future, and voiced confidence that "solutions will be found, on those grounds, in our close personal cooperation and with the engagement of our governments, also to issues we have been discussing for a longer period of time".