LJUBLJANA: CEFTA MEETING ENDS

LJUBLJANA, March 6 (Hina) - A meeting of the Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA), the first such meeting attended by Croatia as a full CEFTA member, ended on Thursday afternoon in Ljubljana. #L# The meeting of representatives of CEFTA member-countries at the level of state secretaries for foreign trade relations, which this year is presided by Slovenia, was attended by Croatia's Assistant Economy Minister Olgica Spevec. As Spevec pointed out in her statement for Hina, one of the topics at the Ljubljana gathering was CEFTA's activities after May 1, 2004, when most CEFTA countries will become members of the European Union. (hina) sp rml sb