MADRID, June 4 (Hina) - Croatia must lead a pro-active policy in its neighbourhood if it wants to enter the European Union and NATO. For this purpose, processes have been launched such as the temporary suspension of visa requirements
with Serbia-Montenegro, Croatian Foreign Minister Tonino Picula said at Madrid's conference of Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council on Wednesday.
MADRID, June 4 (Hina) - Croatia must lead a pro-active policy in its
neighbourhood if it wants to enter the European Union and NATO. For
this purpose, processes have been launched such as the temporary
suspension of visa requirements with Serbia-Montenegro, Croatian
Foreign Minister Tonino Picula said at Madrid's conference of Euro-
Atlantic Partnership Council on Wednesday. #L#
Speaking of issues which should be settled between Zagreb and
Belgrade, Minister Picula mentioned his country's request for the
return of land registers and registers of births, marriages and
deaths looted during the Homeland Defence War and the conclusion of
negotiations on demarcation of the border line as well as the
implementation of the agreement on border traffic and
cooperation.
Croatia would like to see police instead of army troops at the
Danube, as this is a European standard, and therefore insists on the
conclusion of negotiations on the northern border, the minister
said.
The application of the cross-border traffic and co-operation
agreement and the ratification of the re-admission agreement are
also important for stabilisation and security of that region which
"the EU sees as an area where the Union will expand in the next
period," Picula added.
It was reiterated at the Madrid's event that the process of NATO's
enlargement should not cease because of security as the most
important political issue in which democratic countries will
unite, he said.
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