BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 3653 HINA ZAGREB, 8 JUNE 2000

HR-POLITICS-BULLETIN-Politika BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 3653 HINA ZAGREB, 8 JUNE 2000 CROATIAN AND ROMANIAN PRESIDENTS HOLD TALKSZAGREB, June 8 (Hina) - The presidents of Croatia and Romania on Thursday held talks in Zagreb supporting initiatives for renewing navigability along the Danube and building an oil pipeline which would connect the Caspian, Black, and Adriatic Seas. "The Danube connects us, and therefore it would be good if it were navigable. We have agreed to take action, in which Europe should support us, to make the Danube navigable," Croatia's Stipe Mesic told reporters after the talks. "Simultaneously with the Danube, as we have agreed, we will work on making the oil pipeline connect the Caspian, Black and Adriatic Seas." Romania's President Emil Constantinescu announced a Romanian delegation of experts working on the oil pipeline project, which would cross Romania, Hungary and Croatia, would arrive in Zagreb in less than two weeks. The two heads of state express