ZAGREB, Mar 1 (Hina) - By the end of this year Croatia will fulfil the remaining obligations toward the Council of Europe and cease to be the object of its monitoring, Croatian Foreign Minister Tonino Picula said at a round table on
the role of the Council of Europe in European integration processes, in Zagreb on Wednesday.
ZAGREB, Mar 1 (Hina) - By the end of this year Croatia will fulfil
the remaining obligations toward the Council of Europe and cease to
be the object of its monitoring, Croatian Foreign Minister Tonino
Picula said at a round table on the role of the Council of Europe in
European integration processes, in Zagreb on Wednesday. #L#
Annulling discriminatory laws on refugee return, improving
cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the
former Yugoslavia, transforming Croatian Television into a public
television and amending the Constitutional Law on Ethnic Groups and
Minority Rights are the remaining four of Croatia's 21 obligations
taken over upon the country's admission to the Council of Europe.
Croatia will meet those requirements by the end of this year at
latest and the need for monitoring by the Council of Europe's
Ministerial Committee and Parliamentary Assembly will cease to
exist, Picula said.
The Foreign Minister also emphasised that membership in the Council
of Europe offered Croatia an opportunity to accelerate the
democratisation of its society and advance to further integration
processes.
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