BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 5091 HINA Zagreb, 29 Sept 2003

HR-POLITICS-Politika BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 5091 HINA Zagreb, 29 Sept 2003 CROATIAN PRESIDENT RECEIVES EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PRESIDENTZAGREB, Sept 29 (Hina) - European Parliament President Pat Cox told reporters in Zagreb on Monday following a working breakfast with President Stjepan Mesic that his mission during his visit to the region over the next few days would be to discuss acceptance of European values, stressing that the pace of attaining those values would differ from case to case. Cox arrived in Zagreb on Sunday as the head of a European Parliament delegation on a four-day tour of southeastern Europe. Cox said he wanted to officially thank Mesic for his courage in political leadership during his last visit to Belgrade when together with his Serbian counterpart he took an important symbolic step in the light of events from the recent past. The European Parliament president said he looked forward to close cooperation with Croatia on its path to the European Union. Mesi