BIZOVAC BIZOVAC, Nov 18 (Hina) - A two-day international conference on cross-border cooperation in Southeast Europe, attended by 150 participants from the entire Europe, started in the eastern Croatian town of Bizovac on
Monday.
BIZOVAC, Nov 18 (Hina) - A two-day international conference on
cross-border cooperation in Southeast Europe, attended by 150
participants from the entire Europe, started in the eastern
Croatian town of Bizovac on Monday. #L#
The conference is organised by the Stability Pact for Southeast
Europe, the Council of Europe, the "East-West" Institute and the
"Danube-Drava-Sava" Euro-regional Cooperation.
The participants were addressed by Croatian European Integration
Minister Neven Mimica.
"Croatia is ready to develop bilateral and multilateral
cooperation with the countries of the Balkans, the Mediterranean
and Central Europe, but it refuses and it will continue to refuse
all possible attempts to create new state structures in the
Balkans," Mimica said.
The chairman of the Stability Pact Working Table, Robert
Zeldenrust, said that cross-border cooperation would most
definitely be one of the main objectives of the forthcoming moves
aiming at the Pact's better efficiency. He said the conference must
give additional encouragement to more intensive cross-border
cooperation in the areas where Euro-regions already existed and
where some new initiatives were on the way to its
institutionalisation.
The conference was addressed by the president of the Euro-region
"Danube-Drava-Sava", Zoran Kovacevic, Osijek-Baranja County
prefect Ladislav Bognar, co-chairman of the Stability pact Working
Table, Jovan Ratkovic, Croatian coordinator for the Stability
Pact, Goran Markotic, the deputy head of the Organisation for
Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Mission to Croatia,
Ambassador Robert Becker, Council of Europe representative Alfonso
Zardi and deputy head of the "East-West" Institute Sasha Havlicek.
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