SPLIT, Oct 10 (Hina) - The whole world is globalising and Croatia cannot run away from it, and Softcom 2000 "is taking Croatia into Europe in the most contemporary way", Croatian President Stipe Mesic said in the southern Adriatic
port of Split on Tuesday opening the five-day international scientific conference. Borders in unified Europe connect and do not divide, said Mesic. "To be on that path, united with the world, means competing in technology, culture... To want an isolated Croatia means wanting evil, and this is the Croatia wanted by those who want to continue plundering the people," he asserted. "Poverty and diseases are globalised too, as well as the possibility of conflicts. Globalisation, however, pushes the world forward, but only that part which is informed correctly and on time," said the president. He asserted Croatia did not have the right to stop, but had to support t
SPLIT, Oct 10 (Hina) - The whole world is globalising and Croatia
cannot run away from it, and Softcom 2000 "is taking Croatia into
Europe in the most contemporary way", Croatian President Stipe
Mesic said in the southern Adriatic port of Split on Tuesday opening
the five-day international scientific conference.
Borders in unified Europe connect and do not divide, said Mesic. "To
be on that path, united with the world, means competing in
technology, culture... To want an isolated Croatia means wanting
evil, and this is the Croatia wanted by those who want to continue
plundering the people," he asserted.
"Poverty and diseases are globalised too, as well as the
possibility of conflicts. Globalisation, however, pushes the world
forward, but only that part which is informed correctly and on
time," said the president.
He asserted Croatia did not have the right to stop, but had to
support those who led it in that direction.
This year's edition of Softcom 2000 has been successfully
organised, for the eighth time, by Croatian Telecom and Split's
School of Electrical Engineering, Engineering and Shipping, and
the Technology Centre.
The event will feature an international conference on software,
telecommunications and computer networks, a forum on the economic
aspects of telecommunications and information technologies, and an
exhibition of communications and information technologies,
equipment and services.
This year, Softcom 2000 will consider 136 scientific projects from
the field of new technology from around the world.
The event wraps up on October 14 and is taking place on the Croatian
ship Marco Polo sailing along the Adriatic, with stops in Rijeka,
Trieste, and Venice, and back to Split.
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