TOMCIC: DEMOCRATISATION OF SOUTHEAST EUROPE DEPENDS ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

KRIZEVCI, Sept 10 (Hina) - Croatia is very interested in, as a part of the Stabilisation Pact, the completion of Budapest-Rijeka highway and the updating of a railway in the same direction as well as a railway linking the eastern Croatian city of Osijek and Bosnia- Herzegovina and the southern Croatian port of Ploce. We are also interested to see that headquarters for parliamentary education of staff in this part of Europe be established, Croatian National parliament speaker Zlatko Tomcic said in the northern Croatian town of Krizevci Sunday, ahead of the Stability Pact member-countries summit to start in Zagreb Monday. Tomcic told Hina that certain processes did not have dynamics it was previously thought it would have, and added such processes should be accelerated. An impression that the international community was not investing enough in Croatia was created among Croatia's public. However, we must complete a great part ourselves and show that we are on the path to democratisation more serious and more transparent, without which there is no economic development and vice versa, speaker Tomcic said. So far, Croatia gave clear confirmation that it has definitely decided to impose democracy on its relations, that its strategic goals were final integration with the European Union and NATO, as well as other Euro-Atlantic integration, said Tomcic, adding that the international community expected Croatia to set an example to other countries in the Southeast of Europe. (hina) it.