Women foreign ministers, including Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic of Croatia, met at a working dinner on the margins of the 61st session of the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva.
The participants agreed that all countries are obliged to implement appropriate measures to prevent human trafficking, punish the perpetrators and help the victims, Croatia's permanent mission at the UN in Geneva said on Tuesday.
Grabar Kitarovic informed other ministers that Croatia had adopted a national programme for the prevention of human trafficking for the period 2005-2008. She also informed them about the ratification of the Convention on Transnational Organised Crime, about a campaign against human trafficking which was launched in Croatia last year, the processing of people smugglers and assistance to the victims of human trafficking.
The next meeting of women foreign ministers and other senior women officials will be held in New York during the autumn session of the UN General Assembly.