BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 5037

HR-BULLETIN-Politika BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 5037 HINA Zagreb 6 August 2003CROATIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY REPLIES TO SLOVENE NOTEZAGREB, Aug 6 (Hina) - The Croatian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has replied to the Slovene foreign ministry's note with regard to the proclaimation of an economic belt in the Croatian part of the Adriatic Sea, the Croatian foreign ministry said in a statement Wednesday. In the reply to the Slovene note, the Croatian foreign ministry said the government's task force for monitoring the reform of a joint EU fishing policy was drawing up an official standpoint on the modalities for the solution to the issue, the statement said. "The Croatian foreign ministry is harmonising standpoints with the European Commission and neighbouring countries -- including Slovenia -- to establish the future protection of natural and economic resources of the Adriatic in line with national interests as well as the EU policy, in the spirit of good-neighbourly relations and regio