WASHINGTON, June 8 (Hina) - During talks with United States officials in Washington on Friday, Croatian Prime Minister Ivica Racan focused on economic issues.
WASHINGTON, June 8 (Hina) - During talks with United States
officials in Washington on Friday, Croatian Prime Minister Ivica
Racan focused on economic issues. #L#
Racan held talks with US Secretary of Trade Donald Evans, State
Under-Secretary in charge of economic issues Alan Larson and
directors of the Croatian components in the International Monetary
Fund and the World Bank Onno de Beaufort Wijnholds and Piterer
Stek.
The Croatian premier expressed satisfaction with talks and
announced that competent ministries would agree on the expansion of
the two countries' economic cooperation and the cooperation with
international financial institutions.
Croatia does not accept the fact that the United States is in the
eight place on the list of Croatia's trading partners, particularly
because the two countries' economic relations can enable better
economic cooperation, Racan said. The United States administration
gave a sign to the business world that Croatia is not only a reliable
political partner, but also a worthy economic partner, the prime
minister said.
The meeting with Wijnholds and Stek was an opportunity to discuss
new projects in Croatia which could be interesting to the World
Bank.
The Croatian Prime Minister will spend the weekend in Washington,
privately, and next week is expected to meet a group of Croatian
Americans. After the meeting Racan will travel to New York to meet
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and the chairman of the UN General
Assembly, Hang Seung-Soo.
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