NEW YORK NEW YORK, Sept 12 (Hina) - The 55th ministerial session of the United Nations' General Assembly began in New York of Tuesday morning. The session, chaired by Finnish Foreign Minister, Harri Holkeri, is gathering
representatives of 188 UN member states, including Croatia's Foreign Minister Tonino Picula. Picula said he was expecting from this session to offer help to attempts aimed at defining the changes of the UN mechanisms and system so that "this organisation itself would not become a hindrance to the accomplishment of its own objectives." On the East River Picula will present a new Croatia, its democratic achievements and goals and he will also point to the difficulties his country is faced with. "We, like this World Organisation, are undergoing through a period of changes and we are trying to re-define our position on the international stage," Picula noted. Ahead of the commencement of the G
NEW YORK, Sept 12 (Hina) - The 55th ministerial session of the
United Nations' General Assembly began in New York of Tuesday
morning.
The session, chaired by Finnish Foreign Minister, Harri Holkeri, is
gathering representatives of 188 UN member states, including
Croatia's Foreign Minister Tonino Picula.
Picula said he was expecting from this session to offer help to
attempts aimed at defining the changes of the UN mechanisms and
system so that "this organisation itself would not become a
hindrance to the accomplishment of its own objectives."
On the East River Picula will present a new Croatia, its democratic
achievements and goals and he will also point to the difficulties
his country is faced with.
"We, like this World Organisation, are undergoing through a period
of changes and we are trying to re-define our position on the
international stage," Picula noted.
Ahead of the commencement of the General Assembly's session, one of
meetings on the margin of this event finished. It was the meeting of
Foreign Ministers of Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria,
Greece, Macedonia, Romania and Turkey (member-countries of South
Eastern European Cooperation Process) and Picula joined them, as
Croatia is a SEECP observer.
Macedonian Minister Alexander Dimitrov, who was the meeting's
chairman, invited Montenegrin Foreign Minister Branko Lukovac to
attend their talks. Lukovac spoke in detail of the circumstances in
the region.
The participants in this meeting voiced support to democratic
forces in Serbia.
Present at the meeting was Dan Kursch, a deputy of the Special Co-
ordinator of the Stability Pact for South-eastern Europe, and the
talks also revolved around the co-ordination of projects launched
within the Pact and within economic cooperation programmes of the
SEECP.
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