MESIC AND EU AMBASSADORS TO ZAGREB ON CROATIA'S FOREIGN POLICY

ZAGREB, Dec 17 (Hina) - Croatia's President Stjepan Mesic took part in a traditional annual dinner with EU member-states' ambassadors to Croatia, on Tuesday afternoon, a source from the Office of the Croatian President reported on Wednesday. #L# Mesic participated in the dinner traditionally given by the ambassador of the country which chairs the EU. That's why, Italian Ambassador Alessandro Grafini, whose country is chairing over the Union in this half of 2003, gave the party for diplomatic representatives of 15 EU member-countries, ten countries which will enter the Union in 2004 and three official candidates for the membership (Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey). A majority of questions which the participants in the dinner asked President Mesic referred to the developments after the recent parliamentary elections, plans of the new government, and Zagreb's bid to enter the EU and Croatia's co-operation with its neighbours. Mesic reiterated that the country's foreign policy would not be changed and that the admission into the EU and NATO and cooperation with the Hague-based UN war crimes tribunal and neighbouring countries remained Zagreb's strategic objectives, the source from his office said. (hina) ms