STABILITY PACT'S SECURITY WORKING TABLE TO BE HELD IN SARAJEVO

SARAJEVO, Feb 14 (Hina) - The working table on security of the Stability Pact for South-East Europe, which will take place in Sarajevo on Tuesday and Wednesday, is going to gather representatives of 35 countries and some 20 international organisations. They are to discuss the current problems of this region concerning safety and security, said Jan Eliasson, the State Secretary in Sweden's Foreign Ministry and the chairman of this working table. Officials of defence and interior ministries of Stability Pact member-states will consider possibilities of cuts in military budgets, set-up of professional police forces, fight against organised crime and corruption and reforms of the judiciary. Eliasson told reporters on Monday that such conferences could serve as right chances for the implementation of contents of the Pact, adding that this pact is a political formula devised to contribute to democratic processes in the south-east of Europe. He said some countries such as Romania and Bulgaria had seriously taken offered chances and met conditions for the beginning of negotiations on their association with the European Union. At the Sarajevo event, Croatia will be represented by Tomislav Thur, the head of the office of the national co-ordinator of the Stability Pact on behalf of the Foreign Ministry and Brigadier Zeljko Dobranovic on behalf of the Defence Ministry. (hina) ms