BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 4036

HR-BULLETINS-Politika BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 4036 BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 4036HINA Zagreb 26 June 2001CROATIA MARKS DIPLOMACY DAYZAGREB, June 26 (Hina) - If in the past ten years it has been making efforts to show what it is not and what it does not want to be, Croatia now has to show what it is and what it wants to be like, and this is where the role of diplomacy is very important, Foreign Minister Tonino Picula said in Zagreb on Tuesday on the occasion of Croatian Diplomacy Day. Following a series of achievements on the international scene since the start of last year, Croatia faces the challenge of normalising the situation in the country and building a democratic society in line with European standards. "Better internal state functioning is the most important task as neither the EU nor NATO want to integrate unstable countries," Picula said in his speech on the occasion of the 10th Croatian Diplomacy Day, which pooled numerous members of the diplomatic corps