STUTTGART, April 20 (Hina) - Croatian President Stjepan Mesic is exceptionally satisfied with the conclusions of the European Commission's opinion on Croatia's application for membership in the European Union, which read that Croatia
is a functioning democracy, the president's advisor on foreign policy, Ivica Mastruko, told Hina on Tuesday.
STUTTGART, April 20 (Hina) - Croatian President Stjepan Mesic is
exceptionally satisfied with the conclusions of the European
Commission's opinion on Croatia's application for membership in the
European Union, which read that Croatia is a functioning democracy,
the president's advisor on foreign policy, Ivica Mastruko, told Hina
on Tuesday.#L#
"The 120-page document includes a two-sentence summary which says that
Croatia is a functioning democracy... it is especially important to us
that cooperation with the Hague tribunal has been assessed as good,"
Mastruko said.
President Mesic, who is visiting Stuttgart at the invitation of the
premier of the German federal state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, Erwin
Teufel, told reporters that "the positive avis means that Croatia has
done everything it was expected to do".
He voiced confidence that Croatia would obtain candidate status and a
date for the start of accession talks at a meeting of the Council of
Ministers.
"... We only have to continue doing what we have been doing so far.
There is not a single condition that is put before Croatia and I
believe that we can start the negotiations in June. We can be very
satisfied. Europe is integrating and we want to take part in that
process. I believe that we will achieve our strategic goals", Mesic
said.
(Hina) rml