INTERNATIONAL EXPERTS ENDORSE CROATIAN ANTI-CORRUPTION PROJECTS

ZAGREB, July 2 (Hina) - An expert team with the Stability Pact anti- corruption initiative on Monday held talks with Croatian experts on future projects of technical assistance in the fight against corruption and organised crime. participants of the working meeting supported Croatia's planned projects in the field of professional training of judges, state prosecutors and police, and forming a new institution for the struggle against corruption and organised crime (USKOK), the project of reform of the Croatian justice system and the project of technical assistance with drafting the law on the liability of companies under the criminal act. The experts stressed the Croatian government, alongside other countries within the Stability Pact, is interested in the concrete realisation of technical assistance projects as soon as possible, and via donor countries and the World Bank. The projects, they agreed, will promote the country's institutional and legislative framework, and spur the implementation of the main goals of the anti-corruption initiative. The planned projects will be submitted to the initiative's management board and will be discussed by participants of a donor's conference to be held this October, in all probability in Washington. (hina) lml sb