ZAGREB, March 15 (Hina) - Croatia's European integration minister and coordinator of aid and cooperation projects with the EU, Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic, held her first meeting with representatives of foreign donors and international
financial institutions in Zagreb on Monday.
ZAGREB, March 15 (Hina) - Croatia's European integration minister and
coordinator of aid and cooperation projects with the EU, Kolinda
Grabar-Kitarovic, held her first meeting with representatives of
foreign donors and international financial institutions in Zagreb on
Monday.#L#
The meeting involved EU ambassadors in Zagreb and representatives of
the World Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development,
USAID and other organisations.
Speaking to reporters after the talks, Grabar-Kitarovic said that
Croatian representatives had presented a medium-term plan for the use
of foreign aid during the period from 2004 to 2006.
"It is necessary for us to coordinate our activities in the best
possible way in order to direct all the aid to economic and social
priorities and to ensure that it is used as effectively as possible,"
she said, adding that the priorities concerned promotion of small and
medium-sized entrepreneurship, financial consolidation, job creation
and increasing living standards.
"We have met today to better organise ourselves in achieving our
common goal, and that is the successful integration of Croatia into
the EU. It is important for us to known Croatian priorities, because
Croatian priorities are our priorities," Swedish ambassador Sture
Theolin said.
USAID representative William Jeffers said that the meeting discussed
joint work on stepping up the implementation of programmes and
ambitious goals of the Croatian government.
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