PORTOROZ: CROATIAN PARLIAMENT HEAD ON STABILISATION OF REGION

PORTOROZ, May 10 (Hina) - Croatian Parliament President Vladimir Seks is taking part in the fourth meeting of the heads of parliament of the Adriatic-Ionian Initiative member-states in the Slovene coastal town of Portoroz on Monday.#L# Seks spoke about stabilisation and progress in Southeast Europe and congratulated Slovenia on joining the EU. He also stressed the importance of the European Commission's positive avis on Croatia's EU membership application. "The avis is giving an additional encouragement and enthusiasm to our optimism and we expect Croatia to be granted candidate status and be invited to start negotiations on full membership," Seks said. Speaking about the importance of European integration processes for the stabilisation of the region, Seks said Croatia was setting a very good example of how clear objectives and an individual approach in evaluating candidate countries had an extremely important role. "We want our example to serve as a bridge in the further strengthening of Europe's unity," Seks said speaking about Croatia's successes in drawing closer to the EU. (Hina) it