TEHRAN, May 21 (Hina) - The U.N. may not be the most perfect organisation but it is the only legitimate one and a genuine representative of the entire international community and its legal order, Croatian Foreign Minister Tonino
Picula said in a lecture given in Tehran on Wednesday.
TEHRAN, May 21 (Hina) - The U.N. may not be the most perfect
organisation but it is the only legitimate one and a genuine
representative of the entire international community and its legal
order, Croatian Foreign Minister Tonino Picula said in a lecture
given in Tehran on Wednesday. #L#
In his address at the Institute for Political and International
Studies, Picula said Croatia had advocated a peaceful solution and
the central role of the U.N. from the start to the end of the Iraqi
crisis. He outlined Croatia's position on current international
affairs, activities related to full European Union membership,
economic indicators, and standing in the region and the world.
Croatia advocated respecting the U.N. Security Council's
Resolution 1441 on Iraq from the start of the Iraqi crisis, and
expected a peaceful solution, said the Croat.
Even today, following military intervention, Croatia maintains
that the role of the United Nations must not be marginalised, Picula
said.
The issue of the shaken reputation of the world body may be
surmounted only through joint efforts and the responsibility of all
states, in order to reaffirm the fundamental values of peace,
security, and equality, which the international community has been
painstakingly building under the aegis of the U.N. for decades,
said Picula.
In his lecture, the minister said Croatia today was a state stable
for investing and that it generated nearly half the gross domestic
product of the entire region.
In a brief discussion after the lecture, the ambassadors accredited
in Tehran were interested in Croatia's cooperation with countries
in the region, especially Bosnia-Herzegovina, and what positions
Croatia would take with regard to the U.S. and the EU.
French Ambassador Francois Nicollaud said Croatia was ready and
wanted to join the EU, voicing confidence this would certainly
happen. Jokingly, he added that since he was still young, Picula
might become the chief of European diplomacy one day.
(hina) ha sb