CROATIAN FOREIGN MINISTER AT CONFERENCE ON EUROPE IN AACHEN

ZAGREB, May 27 (Hina) - Croatian Foreign Minister Tonino Picula will take part in a conference on governing an enlarged Europe in Germany's Aachen on Tuesday and Wednesday, organised within the framework of the Charlemagne Forum on Europe, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement. The forum is being held each year on the occasion of presenting the Charlemagne award, the oldest and the most prestigious European award for outstanding achievements in creating European unity, the statement said. The award was first presented in 1949 in Aachen, which, as a border town, became the symbol of European reconciliation. Some of the award winners were Jean Monnet, Konrad Adenauer, Winston Churchill, Robert Schumann, George C. Marshall, Henry Kissinger, Vaclav Havel, Jacques Delors, Bronislaw Geremek, Tony Blair, Bill Clinton and Georgy Konrad. Last year, the awards was symbolically presented to the euro, while the winner of this year's award is Valery Giscard D'Estaigne, a former president of France and chairman of the European Convention. The forum will draw about sixty most prominent people who are directly involved in and deserved credit for the strengthening of Europe's unity. (hina) it sb