KIEV, Sept 25 (Hina) - Croatia and Ukraine have the same strategic goals and good political relations, but they need to promote economic cooperation, Croatian national parliament speaker Zlatko Tomcic and his Ukraine colleague Ivan
Pljusc agreed in Kiev Monday. "Our strategic goals are identical - we wish to become members of the European Union and NATO", Tomcic said. Tomcic, who is the head of a Croatian delegation on a visit to Ukraine, held talks with the head of Vrhovna Rada (the Ukrainian parliament) also on the cooperation between the two countries within regional organisations, such as the Stability Pact and the Central European Initiative. I wish Croatia's and Ukraine's economic relations be furthered, Pljusc said and added Ukraine's economy suffered great losses due to the discontinuation of the navigation on the Danube. Tomcic said Croatia supported Kiev's attempts that the Danube be re-opened for
KIEV, Sept 25 (Hina) - Croatia and Ukraine have the same strategic
goals and good political relations, but they need to promote
economic cooperation, Croatian national parliament speaker Zlatko
Tomcic and his Ukraine colleague Ivan Pljusc agreed in Kiev
Monday.
"Our strategic goals are identical - we wish to become members of
the European Union and NATO", Tomcic said.
Tomcic, who is the head of a Croatian delegation on a visit to
Ukraine, held talks with the head of Vrhovna Rada (the Ukrainian
parliament) also on the cooperation between the two countries
within regional organisations, such as the Stability Pact and the
Central European Initiative.
I wish Croatia's and Ukraine's economic relations be furthered,
Pljusc said and added Ukraine's economy suffered great losses due
to the discontinuation of the navigation on the Danube.
Tomcic said Croatia supported Kiev's attempts that the Danube be
re-opened for the navigation. He added the visa system between the
two countries needed to be simplified, and that the two countries
needed to sign a free trade agreement.
Commenting on the news released in Croatian media Friday, according
to which Ukraine was about to face coup d'etat, Pljusc said there
was no danger, and no reason for concern adding this was an act of
political forces which were expressing their dissatisfaction and
protest, because they cannot accept the sovereignty of the
country.
The Croatian delegation also held talks with other Ukrainiane
senior officials and later in the day, the delegation is to meet
Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Juscenko, Foreign Minister Boris
Tarasjuk and President Leonid Kucma.
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