He was speaking to Croatian reporters in Barcelona on Monday at the end of a summit of heads of state and government of European Union countries and its partners on the southern Mediterranean coast.
The meeting, held on the tenth anniversary of the Euro-Mediterranean Group (EuroMed), ended with the adoption of a code of conduct which condemns terrorism in all its forms and with support given to controlled and not illegal immigrants, a joint news conference heard from the EU president, British PM Tony Blair, Spanish PM Zapatero, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, and EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana.
Sanader told the Croatian press the summit was an opportunity to review EuroMed's 10 years because the world, including the Mediterranean and Europe, had changed. He said the EU now had 10 new members and the world was exposed to the global threat of terrorism.
Sanader applauded the fact that prime ministers who usually did not meet were forced to talk simply by participating in the summit.
"Divisions between the wealthy Europe and the south Mediterranean are unacceptable (because) the Mediterranean is part of Europe, but also part of Asia and Africa," he said, adding that the summit yielded a five-year development plan. "We'll see how it will take hold."
Asked if Zagreb, too, was ready to draw money from MEDA, an EU fund for mainly economic projects, Sanader answered in the affirmative.
"Croatia will see how to use money from that fund via its mission to the EU in Brussels and through direct contact with the European Commission."
Sanader held a series of brief meetings on the fringes of EuroMed, informing his colleagues of the Croatian government's goal to conduct brief but good EU entry negotiations and participate in the 2009 elections for the European Parliament.
"Everybody supported that," he said after talks with Spain's Zapatero, Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi, Dutch PM Jan Peter Balkenende, and Irish PM Bertie Ahern, who is due in Zagreb tomorrow.
Sanader and Germany's new Chancellor Angela Merkel agreed her visit to Croatia in the near future.
The Croat also met Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel, and prime ministers Algirdas Brazauskas of Lithuania, Jiri Paroubek of the Czech Republic, Janez Jansa of Slovenia, Calin Popescu-Tariceanu of Romania, Jose Socrates of Portugal, Mikulas Dzurinda of Slovakia, and Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey.