BELGRADE, April 9 (Hina) - Croatian President Stjepan Mesic said on Wednesday his country would probably submit its application for full SEECP membership immediately after the summit of the South-East European Cooperation
Process(SEECP) in Belgrade.
BELGRADE, April 9 (Hina) - Croatian President Stjepan Mesic said on
Wednesday his country would probably submit its application for
full SEECP membership immediately after the summit of the South-
East European Cooperation Process(SEECP) in Belgrade. #L#
The president of Croatia, which has observer status in the SEECP,
believes that his country may become a full member of this regional
initiative at its next summit.
Mesic expressed his stand while he was addressing reporters after
he met the host of the ongoing summit in Belgrade, the President of
Serbia-Montenegro, Svetozar Marovic.
Mesic added that Zagreb would like to develop good relations and
full cooperation with its neighbours.
He added that a clamp-down which the authorities of Serbia-
Montenegro had launched on organised crime after Serbian Premier
Zoran Djindjic's assassination indicated that this new state union
would continue the path toward Europe, and Croatia, he said, would
offer full support to it on that journey.
According to Mesic, he and his host Marovic discussed the refugee
returns, the ratification of a free trade agreement and the
liberalisation of the visa regime between the two countries.
Asked by reporters when the liberalisation of the current visa
regime could be expected, Mesic answered that "Serbia-Montenegro
must first sign a bilateral agreement on re-admission and after
that the liberalisation can fully be carried out."
The Marovic-Mesic talks also revolved around the demilitarisation
of the state border along the Danube river. Mesic said the army of
Serbia-Montenegro was undergoing the reorganisation and it should
assume duties which armies in democracies had.
"This means that the army has nothing to do at the border, and such
situation that already exists on the Croatian side of the frontier
must be set up (on the Serbian-Montenegrin side)," he said.
The Croatian head of state on Wednesday afternoon held talks with
his Moldovan and Macedonian counterparts, Vladimir Voronin and
Boris Trajkovski.
The Belgrade summit will wrap up this evening with the adoption of
final documents.
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