ROME, July 4 (Hina) - Croatian President Stjepan Mesic and his Italian counterpart Carlo Azeglio Ciampi on Tuesday considered the bilateral relations and the situation in south-east Europe. During the Rome talks the Croatian President
particularly requested Italian politicians to give additional support to Croatia's bids to enter European integration processes.
ROME, July 4 (Hina) - Croatian President Stjepan Mesic and his
Italian counterpart Carlo Azeglio Ciampi on Tuesday considered the
bilateral relations and the situation in south-east Europe. During
the Rome talks the Croatian President particularly requested
Italian politicians to give additional support to Croatia's bids to
enter European integration processes.#L#
After the talks, Mesic told reporters that he had asked his Italian
interlocutors to see what Italy could do more while supporting
Croatia's bids to be admitted into the European Union (EU), in the
construction of a Adriatic-Ionian highway which will be
politically and economically important for all countries through
which it will pass and in efforts to make the Danube navigable.
Mesic added that Italy was interested in the building an oil pipe-
line from the Caspian Lake to the northern Adriatic and of a gas
pipe-line from Norway and Poland to the northern Adriatic, as those
lines can help Croatia and Italy to solve power issues.
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