CROATIAN PREMIER RACAN ARRIVES IN DENMARK

COPENHAGEN, July 4 (Hina) - Croatia's Prime Minister Ivica Racan on Tuesday afternoon arrived in Copenhagen on a two-day official visit to Denmark. Racan is the first Croatian Premier to be conducting an official visit to Copenhagen. He and Danish top officials will discuss concrete moves for the promotion of the bilateral political and economic ties in an atmosphere of the warming of the relations between the two countries following the changes in Croatia. This evening the Croatia PM is giving a lecture at the Danish Society for Foreign Politics. On Wednesday Racan and his Danish counterpart Poul Nyrup Rasmussen will hold official talks. The two premiers will sign a joint declaration in which Denmark should express its support to Croatia's bids to enter Euro-Atlantic integration processes. Racan and Rasmussen are to discus visas which Copenhagen introduced for Croatian subjects in 1998, owing to a sudden wave of Croatian Serbs in Denmark who asked the asylum in that European country. Denmark is expected to rescind entry visas for Croatian citizens, as in 2001 it has to adjust its regulations on the matter in line with the so-called Schengen white list of countries whose nationals do not need to have visas while entering EU member-countries. One of those countries is Croatia. Premier Racan is accompanied by Foreign and Economy Ministers, Tonino Picula and Goranko Fizulic respectively, on this trip. (hina) ms