ZAGREB, March 2 (Hina) - Italy completely endorses Croatia's wishes to join Euro-Atlantic associations, and will provide it will all the necessary help to access the World Trade Organisation as soon as possible, Italy's Foreign Trade
Minister Piero Fassino said in Zagreb Thursday. Following a meeting with Fassino, Croatian economy Minister Goranko Fizulic told a joint news conference Italy's help to Croatia in accessing the WTO was a focus of their talks Thursday, including concrete projects in the field of energy supply. The support Croatia is enjoying at the moment is also indicative of the role it has in the stability of the region, because its, as Fassino said, firm integration into Europe is a support to peace and stability of the region and the Stability Pact. Fizulic told reporters the talks also focused on the privatisation of Croatia's oil company INA, the cooperation of the two countries' o
ZAGREB, March 2 (Hina) - Italy completely endorses Croatia's wishes
to join Euro-Atlantic associations, and will provide it will all
the necessary help to access the World Trade Organisation as soon as
possible, Italy's Foreign Trade Minister Piero Fassino said in
Zagreb Thursday.
Following a meeting with Fassino, Croatian economy Minister
Goranko Fizulic told a joint news conference Italy's help to
Croatia in accessing the WTO was a focus of their talks Thursday,
including concrete projects in the field of energy supply.
The support Croatia is enjoying at the moment is also indicative of
the role it has in the stability of the region, because its, as
Fassino said, firm integration into Europe is a support to peace and
stability of the region and the Stability Pact.
Fizulic told reporters the talks also focused on the privatisation
of Croatia's oil company INA, the cooperation of the two countries'
oil companies, INA and ENI, and the completion of the project of a
section of a pipeline from Omis to Trieste.
"A joint project was mentioned in which companies from both
countries will take part, the construction of a pipeline in
Algeria, whose total value is US$600 million, and the Croatian part
worth US$126 million," Fizulic said.
Fassino also met ministers Radimir Cacic and Alojz Tusek, to
discuss infrastructure and cooperation between Croatian and
Italian harbours in the north Adriatic.
Fassino was also received by Croatian Prime Minister Ivica Racan.
participating in the talks which focused on various elements of
bilateral cooperation, as Fassino put it, was also foreign Minister
Tonino Picula.
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