STRASBOURG, May 10 (Hina) - Croatian Foreign Minister Tonino Picula who is attending a session of the Council of Europe Ministerial committee in Strasbourg, on Wednesday held talks with secretary-general of the Council of Europe's
Parliamentary Assembly, Bruno Haller, on the course on preparations of a monitoring report of the Council of Europe on Croatia. "The Council of Europe monitoring (for Croatia) is nearing a close," Picula said after the talks. The last report, Picula said, "registered success in the fulfilment of obligations Croatia has assumed before the Council of Europe, in the measure in which it can be expected for the monitoring to be completed in the second half of this year". "I would not like to speculate about the date but I believe this would occur much before the end of the year," Picula said. On Wednesday he signed two additional protocols of one of the Council of Europe's humanit
STRASBOURG, May 10 (Hina) - Croatian Foreign Minister Tonino Picula
who is attending a session of the Council of Europe Ministerial
committee in Strasbourg, on Wednesday held talks with secretary-
general of the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly, Bruno
Haller, on the course on preparations of a monitoring report of the
Council of Europe on Croatia.
"The Council of Europe monitoring (for Croatia) is nearing a
close," Picula said after the talks.
The last report, Picula said, "registered success in the fulfilment
of obligations Croatia has assumed before the Council of Europe, in
the measure in which it can be expected for the monitoring to be
completed in the second half of this year".
"I would not like to speculate about the date but I believe this
would occur much before the end of the year," Picula said.
On Wednesday he signed two additional protocols of one of the
Council of Europe's humanitarian conventions (on preventing
torture).
Picula also met Council of Europe Secretary-General Walter
Schwimmer.
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