BELGRADE, April 9 (Hina) - The sixth summit of the Southeast European Cooperation Process (SEECP) ended in Belgrade evening with the adoption of a joint declaration. After the summit, Bosnia-Herzegovina will take the one-year chair
over the association from Serbia-Montenegro.
BELGRADE, April 9 (Hina) - The sixth summit of the Southeast
European Cooperation Process (SEECP) ended in Belgrade evening
with the adoption of a joint declaration. After the summit, Bosnia-
Herzegovina will take the one-year chair over the association from
Serbia-Montenegro. #L#
With the adoption of the Belgrade declaration, nine heads of state
harmonised their stances on the continuation of regional co-
operation particularly in reference to the fight against terrorism
and organised crime, Croatian President Stjepan Mesic, who
participated in today's summit, pointed out.
At the end of the summit nine countries from the region - Albania,
Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Greece, Rumania, Macedonian,
Turkey and the host Serbia and Montenegro and Croatia as an observer
country, expressed their common wish for the war in Iraq to end as
soon as possible. They advocated a peaceful solution to the Iraqi
crisis. The nine countries believe that the UN should have a central
role in resolving the Iraqi crisis, including humanitarian aid and
post-war reconstruction of the country.
Priorities in regional co-operation are the liberalisation of the
visa regime as well as advocating stronger free trade zones in the
region, co-operation in the economic field particularly
telecommunications, traffic and power supplies.
As President Mesic told reporters, a bilateral meeting with the
presidents of Serbia and Montenegro Svetozar Marovic focused on the
liberalisation of the visa regime.
In addition to state heads from Southeast European countries,
today's summit was attended by the President of the European
Commission, Romano Prodi, the secretary-general of the
Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe, Jan Kubis,
assistant co-ordinator for NATO's secretary-general Guenter
Altenberg, special co-ordinator of the Stability Pact for
Southeast Europe Erhard Busek, chief deputy UN's secretary-general
Charles Brayshow and the director for political affairs with the
Council of Europe, Klaus Schumann.
The next meeting of the heads of the nine SEEPC countries will br
held in Sarajevo in 2004. The country to take over the chair of the
association after Bosnia should be Romania.
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