ZAGREB, April 3 (Hina) - Croatian President Stipe Mesic will travel to Macedonia on Wednesday and hold talks with President Boris Trajkovski and other Macedonian officials about bilateral relations, cooperation and stability in the
region, the President's Office said in a statement Monday. Macedonia and Croatia are traditionally in very friendly relations in which there are no unsolved issues, and with this visit we wish to contribute to the friendship with more concrete dimensions in economic and cultural cooperation, as well as in other areas, the President's advisor for foreign policy, Stanko Nick, said. Trade between Croatia and Macedonia is because of bad traffic connections and transition processes at the present small and amounts to about US$120 million per year, but there are all preconditions for it to increase significantly, especially in relation with the implementation of the Free Trade Agreement of 1997
ZAGREB, April 3 (Hina) - Croatian President Stipe Mesic will travel
to Macedonia on Wednesday and hold talks with President Boris
Trajkovski and other Macedonian officials about bilateral
relations, cooperation and stability in the region, the
President's Office said in a statement Monday.
Macedonia and Croatia are traditionally in very friendly relations
in which there are no unsolved issues, and with this visit we wish to
contribute to the friendship with more concrete dimensions in
economic and cultural cooperation, as well as in other areas, the
President's advisor for foreign policy, Stanko Nick, said.
Trade between Croatia and Macedonia is because of bad traffic
connections and transition processes at the present small and
amounts to about US$120 million per year, but there are all
preconditions for it to increase significantly, especially in
relation with the implementation of the Free Trade Agreement of
1997.
The exceptionally good cooperation between Croatia and Macedonia
does not exist only in bilateral relations, but also in
international organisations, coordinated appearance before Euro-
Atlantic associations and in solving the issue of peace and
stability in the region, Nick said.
These issues will be the focus of talks between President Mesic and
his host Trajkovski and other Macedonian officials.
With the first visit abroad, Mesic's visit to Macedonia will also be
branded with the functioning of the state apparatus in new
conditions, which, according to announcements by the Presidential
Office, brings a "maximal simplification of the state protocol".
The decision, in agreement with the Government and the Parliament,
that the state protocol should be generally simplified, was made by
Mesic "a little provoked by reactions upon returning from
Sarajevo", but primarily within the concept of reducing expenses of
the state apparatus, Nick said.
Following these changes Croatia should have "the simplest, most
functioning and least expensive protocol in the world," Nick
asserted.
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