BRATISLAVA, March 18 (Hina) - Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader said on Thursday the latest violence in Kosovo and Serbia will not undermine Croatia's road to the European Union.
BRATISLAVA, March 18 (Hina) - Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader said
on Thursday the latest violence in Kosovo and Serbia will not
undermine Croatia's road to the European Union.#L#
"No, the instability on our eastern border won't undermine Croatia's
road to the EU. On the contrary, I think everyone can see now, both
the EU and NATO, that Croatia is the anchor of stability in the
region," he said in Bratislava, where he arrived today for a two-day
conference of the Vilnius and Visegrad groups of countries.
Sanader said the decision to withdraw the staff of Croatia's embassy
in Belgrade to safe locations was good "even though the protest was
not aimed against Croatia". This was said in reference to this
morning's stoning of the embassy.
On the first day in Bratislava Sanader met officials of the Jewish
humanitarian association B'nai B'rith, who informed him of
preparations for a declaration on anti-Semitism, which the
Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe is expected to
issue in late April.
On Friday Sanader and his counterparts from the Vilnius and Visegrad
countries will exchange views on Europe's future. He will meet the
prime ministers of Macedonia, Lithuania, Slovakia, Albania and Estonia
outside the conference.
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