ZAGREB, June 14 (Hina) - Croatian Assistant Foreign Minister Vladimir Drobnjak, after the session of a joint consulting work group of the European Union and Croatia on Wednesday said "the doors of Brussels are wide open to Croatia
today".
ZAGREB, June 14 (Hina) - Croatian Assistant Foreign Minister
Vladimir Drobnjak, after the session of a joint consulting work
group of the European Union and Croatia on Wednesday said "the doors
of Brussels are wide open to Croatia today".#L#
By the endorsement of a feasibility study, the European Union
Council of Ministers on Tuesday confirmed Croatia met necessary
demands for the opening of the process on the Stabilisation and
Association Agreement.
"Negotiations could start in early autumn", Drobnjak pointed out.
He added however, that even now a significant progress in relations
between Croatian and the European Union has been achieved. Drobnjak
said that Zagreb had firm foundations at which it can build the
continuation of further activities with the European Union.
Assessing the feasibility study, Croatian Deputy Minister for
European Integration Mirjana Mladineo said, said the study
demonstrated the real situation in the country and established
three groups of problems and tasks which must be solved in the
process of reforms.
Drobnjak stressed that if necessary, the join European Union-
Croatian consulting work group would held another session this
autumn ahead of the negotiations on the stabilisation and
association.
Based on a positive result of the third meeting, we will continue to
work toward reforms in the country on one side and Croatia's
approaching the European Union on the other, said political
director in European Commission Foreign Policy Board, Fabrizio
Barbaso.
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