"Croatia can expect Canada's support for its NATO membership," Roncevic told Hina over the phone.
He said the talks also addressed the forthcoming NATO summit in Riga and the need for the final document to individually evaluate the progress of candidate countries and set a time frame for their accession.
Roncevic said he informed his Canadian host that the aim of the Croatian defence reform was to adjust the military to NATO standards and make it fully professional by 2010.
O'Connor commended Croatia's progress in defence reform and underlined Croatia's significant contribution to the ISAF mission in Afghanistan, said Roncevic.
The two ministers also talked about the implementation of an agreement on the education of Croatian officers at Canadian military academies, which envisages four to six students annually. Roncevic pointed to the problem of visas and the need to find a model to facilitate the students' arrival in Canada.
Roncevic also met the Canadian Army's Chief of Staff, General Rick Hillier, who was ISAF commander in 2003-04, for talks on Croatia's defence reform.
Hillier commended the engagement of Croatian military police in Kabul as well as the rest of ISAF's Croatian contingent, said Roncevic.