BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 4872 HINA Zagreb, 22 January 2003

HR-POLITICS-Politika BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 4872 HINA Zagreb, 22 January 2003 ANNIVERSARY OF ELYSEE TREATY MARKED IN ZAGREBZAGREB, Jan 22 (Hina) - An agreement of friendship and co-operation between France and Germany signed in 1963, made it possible for Europe to become united, the French and German Ambassadors to Croatia, Francis Bellanger an Gebhardt Weiss respectively, said on Wednesday in Zagreb's Mimara Museum during the commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the agreement. Croatia's President Mesic agreed with their stand during his speech on this occasion. The agreement, known as the Elysee Treaty was signed in Paris, January 22, 1963 by the then French President, General Charles de Gaulle and German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. Without the Elysee Treaty European integration processes would have advanced much slower and with less success in their political dimensions, Ambassador Weiss said pointing out that without that agreement there would be neither European Uni