Leaders of 25 European Union member-states and candidate countries - Bulgaria, Romania, Croatia and Turkey - convened for an informal meeting at Hampton Court, outside London, to discuss the future of Europe and globalisation challenges.
After British Prime Minister Tony Blair asked Sanader to address the meeting, the Croatian PM told his colleagues that Croatia shared the same concerns regarding globalisation.
After a working lunch Sanader told reporters that he held several bilateral meetings at Hampton Court. He briefly met with Blair, whose country is the current chair of the European Union, and then with Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel, Slovak Prime Minister Mikulas Dzurinda and Prime Ministers Marek Belka of Poland, Costas Caramanlis of Greece, and Silvio Berlusconi of Italy.
Sanader added that he held useful talks with his Slovene counterpart Janes Jansa and other colleagues about their assistance to Croatia during its accession negotiations with the European bloc.
Commenting on Croatia's relations with Great Britain, Sanader said that he had always believed that those relations were not reduced to the case of runaway general Ante Gotovina, who is wanted by the UN war crimes tribunal.
"I have always stated that Britain fully supports Croatia and this is evidenced by (my) very cordial meeting with Prime Minister Blair," Sanader said.
According to Sanader, the good relations were also evidenced by yesterday's visit of British Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott to Zagreb.
Sanader announced that good news could be expected very soon regarding Britain's decision to abolish the visa regime for Croatian citizens.
"I discussed this topic yesterday with Prescott and he promised that he would talk about it with Prime Minister Blair and the Home Secretary. I believe that we can expect some good news in 2006," Sanader said.
Asked about the possibility for Croatia to change the constitutional provision under which the deployment of Croatian troops abroad must be approved by the parliament, Sanader said that he would try to reach a consensus on the matter with parliamentary parties.
"I believe that this should be discussed and that a political consensus should be reached. I believe that at this stage it is good that the Croatian Sabor makes decisions on the deployment of soldiers outside Croatia. However, if we want to join NATO and be a full member, we must accept the practice of NATO member-states whose governments make decisions on the deployment of soldiers up to a certain number of troops. What is above that number is a matter for parliaments to decide," he explained.