Grabar Kitarovic took part in a ministerial meeting in this Greek city which pooled the foreign ministers of Southeast European Cooperation Process (SEECP) member countries. Croatia is scheduled to take over the one-year rotating chair of SEECP on 4 May.
Speaking about the priorities of Croatia's chairmanship, Grabar Kitarovic said Croatia wanted to promote cooperation in Southeast Europe.
"One of the pillars of our plan is cooperation and support to European integration processes founded on the principle of individual approach," Grabar Kitarovic told Croatian reporters.
Under the plan, with which she acquainted her colleagues from the nine countries of the region, Zagreb will advocate the strengthening of this part of the Old Continent in EU institutions. The plan also includes the institutional strengthening of SEECP which, according to the minister, should take over some functions of another similar organisation - the Stability Pact for Southeast Europe.
SEECP foreign ministers okayed Moldova's request for full membership of the organisation founded in 1996.
The foreign ministers of nine Southeast European countries met in Thessaloniki on Wednesday, a day before a summit at which Croatia will take over the chairmanship of the Southeast European Cooperation Process (SEECP).
On 4 May Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader will take over the rotating chair of the SEECP from Greece. Apart from Croatia and Greece, SEECP also includes Albania, Serbia and Montenegro, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey and Bosnia-Herzegovina.
The 9th SEECP summit is expected to end with the adoption of a joint declaration which will underline the devotion to the European integration process and cooperation.