ZADAR UNIVERSITY INAUGURATED

ZADAR, May 9 (Hina) - Zadar University, the fifth in Croatia, was inaugurated with a special session of its senate on Friday. #L# Many scientific, cultural, political, and church figures, state officials, guests from home and abroad, including President Stjepan Mesic, attended. Mesic said today would go down in the history of both Zadar and Croatia. The founding of a fifth university in the country is a major event because those who invest in science and education have secured their future, he said. The President recalled today's ceremony was in fact a reinauguration because Zadar University was originally founded in 1396. The founding of the university is a "great contribution to the adoption of standards we all advocate," he said. Mesic said united Europe would become a world factor, a partner to the U.S., Japan, and China. "War has been excluded from Europe for good because with open borders there are no reasons for wars," he said, adding "we Croats are interested in living in this united Europe in the totality of our culture". Croatia is achieving the standards which enable it to be equal to those which are already united, the President said. (hina) ha sb