PRAGUE: CROATIAN PRESIDENT MEETS MACEDONIAN, ALBANIAN COUNTERPARTS

PRAGUE, Nov 21 (Hina) - Croatian President Stjepan Mesic, who on Thursday morning arrived in Prague where a two-day NATO summit is being held, met his Macedonian and Albanian counterparts to discuss the strengthening of cooperation after the other Vilnius Group countries had been invited to join NATO. #L# Mesic, Boris Trajkovski and Alfred Moisiu are expected to welcome the invitation which NATO Secretary-General forwarded to Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia earlier today, as well as the open-door policy confirmed by 19 NATO nations. The three presidents should also discuss the strengthening of cooperation, including cooperation in drawing closer to Euro- Atlantic associations. Later today, Mesic is to attend a lunch, to be given by the U.S Committee for NATO in the honour of the Vilnius Group countries. Along with the other leader of the Vilnius 10 Group, Mesic will meet Czech President Vaclav Havel this evening. (hina) it