Minister Grabar-Kitrovic held a speech at the fourth panel within the meeting called Panel 4 "Acting in concert in the Balkans and elsewhere - How can institutional cooperation make the world more secure"?, reads the press release issued by the ministry.
She underlined the progress the region made in the security sector and expressed satisfaction with activities and reforms carried out through NATO's Membership Action Plan (MAP) and the Stabilisation and Association process.
Those mechanisms together with prospects of becoming full members of the European Union and NATO have been seen as catalysts in south-eastern European countries during their implementation of political, economic and institutionalised reforms, the Croatian official said.
She went on to say that achievements and headway in the implementation of reforms should be assesses on the basis of individual results, and regional cooperation as an important component of the stability in the region should be based on the common goal, i.e. membership in Euro-Atlantic institutions.
Croatia is resolved to support countries in the region, and an example of good cooperation is tripartite cooperation of Croatia, Albania and Macedonia within the US-Adriatic Charter, Grabar-Kitarovic said.
On the margins of the EAPC summit in Sweden, the Croatian official met with foreign ministers, Ilinka Mitreva of Macedonia and Katriot Islami of Albania and the US Undersecretary for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns.
Grabar-Kitarovic informed them of activities Zagreb was taking to implement the action plan aimed at tracking down the fugitive general Ante Gotovina and her country's determination to fully cooperate with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
The Croatian foreign minister also met with her Lithuanian and Estonian counterparts, Antanas Valionis and Urmas Paet, and thanked them for their countries' support to Croatia on the road towards the EU and NATO.