Only a country that settles the energy issue from a number of sources can count on speedy growth, Mesic said after talking with the institute's leaders.
The talks focused on how the institute could help Croatia settle strategic energy issues and how much it could launch Croatian companies on foreign markets given that it is present in Europe and beyond, said Mesic.
Asked by the press to comment on the possibility of building a nuclear power plant in Croatia, Mesic said experts were probably discussing this option, that nuclear energy was not ruled out and that its use depended on when other sources of energy were used up.
Institute head Goran Granic said that everyone, from the World Energy Congress to the European Union, recommended that all options be considered and appropriate decisions be made accordingly.
Granic said the Hrvoje Pozar institute had won an international tender among 30 countries to draw up an energy development strategy for Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The contract for the "Energy Sector Study in B&H" is worth 700,000 euros and is part of a USD231.1 million World Bank project called "Electronic Power Reconstruction 3", which is intended to renovate the Bosnian energy sector.