ZAGREB, Oct 3 (Hina) - Croatia's President Stjepan Mesic will fly to Sofia on Thursday on a two-day visit to Bulgaria. During his visit, President Mesic will attend a summit meeting of Vilnius 10 member-countries and give a lecture on
anti-terrorist fight at American University in Blagoevgrad. His lecture, at which he will speak about his draft charter on anti-terrorist coalition's principles, that was presented for the first time during his recent visit to Slovakia, is scheduled for Thursday. The V10 summit will be held on Friday. The V10 informal group includes countries aspirants for the membership in NATO: Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia. These countries, except Croatia that joined them a few months ago, signed a joint statement of solidarity in Vilnius last year, calling on the Alliance to admit them together into its memb
ZAGREB, Oct 3 (Hina) - Croatia's President Stjepan Mesic will fly to
Sofia on Thursday on a two-day visit to Bulgaria.
During his visit, President Mesic will attend a summit meeting of
Vilnius 10 member-countries and give a lecture on anti-terrorist
fight at American University in Blagoevgrad.
His lecture, at which he will speak about his draft charter on anti-
terrorist coalition's principles, that was presented for the first
time during his recent visit to Slovakia, is scheduled for
Thursday.
The V10 summit will be held on Friday. The V10 informal group
includes countries aspirants for the membership in NATO: Albania,
Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia,
Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia.
These countries, except Croatia that joined them a few months ago,
signed a joint statement of solidarity in Vilnius last year,
calling on the Alliance to admit them together into its membership
at the Prague summit, due to be in late 2002.
Croatia was accepted in Vilnius 10 group during NATO's meeting in
Budapest this May, although it had not fulfilled all the formal
criteria, i.e. it was not a member of Membership Action Plan (MAP).
Other Vilnius 10 members are part of MAP which presents a specific
status for Partnership for Peace Programme European member-
countries that aspire to enter NATO.
Present at the Sofia summit will be V10 member-countries' head of
state, senior officials of some NATO members and the Alliance's top
officials including Secretary-General George Robertson and NATO's
chief commander in Europe, Joseph Ralston.
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