SUBOTICA/ZAGREB, April 24 (Hina) - Croatia supports efforts by Vojvodina Croats to establish a Croat People's Council which would help them exercise their rights, Croatian Foreign Minister Tonino Picula said in Subotica on
Wednesday.
SUBOTICA/ZAGREB, April 24 (Hina) - Croatia supports efforts by
Vojvodina Croats to establish a Croat People's Council which would
help them exercise their rights, Croatian Foreign Minister Tonino
Picula said in Subotica on Wednesday. #L#
Picula visited Subotica on the second day of his visit to Yugoslavia
to meet municipal and district officials and Croat
representatives, the acting spokesman for the Croatian Foreign
Ministry, Zarko Plevnik, told Hina on the phone.
During a meeting with the "Format" group, which is charge of drawing
up an agreement on the protection of minorities between Croatia and
Yugoslavia, Picula told Croat representatives that he welcomed
their efforts to set up a Croat People's Council. "It would be a big
step forward in exercising your rights" in line with the new law on
protection of minorities, which the Yugoslav government adopted
last month, and Vojvodina Croats can count on Croatia's help,
Plevnik quoted Picula as saying.
Picula also met with the Subotica city leadership, whom he thanked
for the ethnic diversity which they managed to preserve in the past
difficult decade. Subotica is a town with the largest number of
Hungarians and Croats in Yugoslavia.
Picula also met representatives of Croat associations, whom he
informed about the results of his visit to Belgrade yesterday.
He reiterated that the normalisation of relations between the two
countries was completed and that their relations were developing
normally.
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