WASHINGTON/NEW YORK, May 1 (Hina) - On its way to the European Union Croatia will have to implement comprehensive reforms to achieve sustainable development, the State Secretary at the Croatian Ministry of Environmental Protection and
Zoning, Visnja Jelic Mueck, said before the UN Commission for Sustainable Development on Friday.
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK, May 1 (Hina) - On its way to the European Union
Croatia will have to implement comprehensive reforms to achieve
sustainable development, the State Secretary at the Croatian Ministry
of Environmental Protection and Zoning, Visnja Jelic Mueck, said
before the UN Commission for Sustainable Development on Friday.#L#
Croatia will need significant investments and have its administrative
possibilities strengthened to implement the legislation on
environmental protection, Jelic Mueck said.
The biggest challenges for Croatia are waste disposal, waste water
treatment, water supply and the improvement of governance on the local
and national level, the official said.
Fast changes in the spatial structure caused by privatisation threaten
public interests, especially along the Adriatic coast, Jelic Mueck
said adding that Croatia needed continued international assistance in
solving those problems.
The UN Commission for Sustainable Development, of which Croatia is a
member, on Friday ended its 12th session calling on the international
community to invest more efforts to achieve by 2015 the Millennium
Development Goals in the areas of water supply, sewage management, and
accommodation of the poor, which were agreed at the World Summit on
Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in 2002.
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