The meeting, held in the northwestern Croatian town of Varazdin, is the continuation of good cooperation between the ministries of the three countries that share views on the security situation in this part of Europe, Interior Ministers Ivica Kirin of Croatia, Monika Lamperth of Hungary and Dragutin Mate of Slovenia told reporters after the talks.
The first meeting of this kind took place in the Hungarian town of Kaposvar last October, when the Kaposvar Declaration was signed with a view to strengthening cooperation in the areas of internal security, border management and combating organised crime, terrorism and illegal migrations.
Today we have discussed everything that has happened since October last year and we have concluded that a lot has been done, Lamperth said, adding that Croatia's EU and NATO membership bid was one of Hungary's strategic international goals.
Mate also described the cooperation between the police forces of the three countries as good, proposing that "a meeting point" be established in Slovenia where police officials from Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary and Austria could meet and exchange information in accordance with their national laws.
Kirin recalled that Croatia had up to now spent about 43 million euros from the EU CARDS and PHARE pre-accession funds on police work.
The Croatian police have received great assistance from Hungary and Slovenia in securing the European standards, he said.
Kirin and Lamperth also discussed the demolition of illegally built housing owned by Hungarian nationals on the central Croatian Adriatic island of Vir.
Those buildings could not be legalised and it was necessary to take all the legal steps. The demolition has so far been proceeding without incident, which shows that people accept the rule of law, Kirin said.
He noted that the Hungarian investors would be given enough time to take all of their movable property out of the illegal buildings before they were pulled down.