ZAGREB, May 18 (Hina) - Croatian Deputy Foreign Minister Vesna Cvjetkovic Kurelec on Thursday held talks with Finnish officials on cooperation between the two countries. Talks with deputy president of the Finnish Parliament, Jukka
Mikkol and vice-chairman of the foreign affairs parliamentary committee, Liss Jaakonsaari, concluded with an agreed visit of a delegation of the Finnish Parliament's constitution and legislature committee to Croatia in June, and a visit of a Croatian Parliament delegation to Finland this October, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement Thursday. Kurelec and state secretary at the Finnish Foreign Minister Jukk Valtasaari confirmed good relations between Croatia and Finland. They exchanged their countries' foreign policy priorities and the state of relations with neighbouring countries. They stressed the need for constant contacts at a high state level. Croatia has
ZAGREB, May 18 (Hina) - Croatian Deputy Foreign Minister Vesna
Cvjetkovic Kurelec on Thursday held talks with Finnish officials on
cooperation between the two countries.
Talks with deputy president of the Finnish Parliament, Jukka Mikkol
and vice-chairman of the foreign affairs parliamentary committee,
Liss Jaakonsaari, concluded with an agreed visit of a delegation of
the Finnish Parliament's constitution and legislature committee to
Croatia in June, and a visit of a Croatian Parliament delegation to
Finland this October, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement
Thursday.
Kurelec and state secretary at the Finnish Foreign Minister Jukk
Valtasaari confirmed good relations between Croatia and Finland.
They exchanged their countries' foreign policy priorities and the
state of relations with neighbouring countries. They stressed the
need for constant contacts at a high state level.
Croatia has offered Finland the possibility to participate in the
project of establishing a centre for the interpretation of European
legislative in Zagreb.
Kurelec also visited the Aleksanteri Institute which deals with
strategic issues and international relations, and informed her
hosts about the situation in Croatia following recent elections, as
well as Croatia's new policy with relation to Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Kurelec offered to the Institute to review projects on trans-border
cooperation, programmes for the development of small businesses
and so on.
Institute representatives expressed wish to establish cooperation
with the Croatian Institute for International Relations in
Zagreb.
After her two-day visit to Finland, Kurelec will on Friday visit
Latvia.
Along with Foreign Minister Tonino Picula's visit to Norway,
Lithuania and Sweden from May 3 to 5, Kurelec's visit concludes a
tour of Scandinavian and Baltic countries, whose goal was to
strengthen political and economic relations between Croatia and
this region of Europe, the Ministry said in the statement.
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