DUBROVNIK, Oct 8 (Hina) - Croatian European Integration Minister Neven Mimica on Tuesday opened a three-day international conference on integration processes in Dubrovnik.
DUBROVNIK, Oct 8 (Hina) - Croatian European Integration Minister
Neven Mimica on Tuesday opened a three-day international
conference on integration processes in Dubrovnik. #L#
Minister Mimica said Croatia was very successfully fulfilling its
obligations defined by a Stabilisation and Association Agreement
(SAA).
Opening the event, he gave a lecture on the relations between Zagreb
and the European Union, and asserted that since Croatia had signed
the SAA with the Union, it had made huge steps and met a half of the
commitments which it should fulfil in the four-year-period.
The minister reiterated that his country stood real chances for
becoming a new candidate for the admission into the EU by 2004.
After Bulgaria and Romania join the EU, the second round of the
Union's enlargement will proceed speedier than predicted, and
contrary to the current practice of the accession of countries in
the package, the individual entry of countries will be carried out,
Mimica said.
The Dubrovnik conference, organised by the Croatian Foreign
Ministry's diplomatic academy, Zagreb University and the Munich-
based Hanns Seidel foundation, has pooled some 30 participants,
from Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia,
Romania, Slovakia, Ukraine and Yugoslavia.
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