PARIS: CROATIAN PRESIDENT HOLDS TALKS WITH PRESIDENT OF FRENCH PARLIAMENT

PARIS, April 7 (Hina) - Croatia and France want to intensify their parliamentary cooperation, the president of French national assembly, Jean-Louis Debre, said on Wednesday after talks with Croatian President Stjepan Mesic#L# Debre, who attended the opening of an exhibition called "Renaissance in Croatia", asked Mesic to convey the official invitation to Croatian Parliament President Vladimir Seks to visit France. Debre expressed satisfaction with the fact that he held talks with the president of a country that wrote its Constitutions inspired by the French model. Debre's father is the architect of France's Constitution which served as a model for the Croatian Constitution. This is why I want a closed cooperation between our two parliaments, Debre said and added this was in the interest of the two countries and Europe. The Constitution was one of the topics of talks Mesic held on Tuesday, the first day of his working visit to France, with former President Valery Giscard D'Estaing who is now at the helm of the European Convention. D'Estaing drafted the future European Union Constitution and expressed conviction that when Croatia joined the EU it would enter an already reformed Europe. (Hina) it