CETINJE ADOPTS JOINT STATEMENT CETINJE, Feb 9 (Hina) - Cooperation between parliaments in the region is a way to achieve a policy of peace and development, reads a joint statement adopted by participants in a parliamentary forum, held
in Montenegro's Cetinje on Monday. The event pooled senior parliamentary officials from Croatia, Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Greece, Macedonia and Serbia and Montenegro.
CETINJE, Feb 9 (Hina) - Cooperation between parliaments in the region
is a way to achieve a policy of peace and development, reads a joint
statement adopted by participants in a parliamentary forum, held in
Montenegro's Cetinje on Monday. The event pooled senior parliamentary
officials from Croatia, Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Greece, Macedonia
and Serbia and Montenegro.#L#
Participants in the forum agreed to support, in line with their
authorities, the development and implementation of joint projects in
the area of road construction and power and telecommunications
infrastructure.
They also supported the liberalisation of visa regimes in the region
and the free flow of goods and services, in line with European
integration processes. It was noted that an effective fight against
organised crime and corruption was the only way to a safe future of
citizens.
The forum was also addressed by Sabor vice-president Luka Bebic, who
said that Croatia viewed the EU's upcoming enlargement as "only one
step in a process which will be completed only when South-East
European countries become equal tenants of the joint European house".
"Croatia is interested in cooperation with all S-E European countries,
the aim being joint integration into the EU, and that is one of the
main priorities of Croatia's foreign policy," Bebic said, stressing
that Croatia would continue democratic reforms so that by 2007-2008 it
could assume obligations arising from EU membership.
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