ZAGREB ZAGREB, Oct 20 (Hina) - The Regional Arms Control Verification and Implementation Assistance Centre (RACVIAC) was opened in the Vitez Damir Martic barracks in Rakitje near Zagreb on Friday. The centre will operate within the
Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe's Working Table on security issues.
ZAGREB, Oct 20 (Hina) - The Regional Arms Control Verification and
Implementation Assistance Centre (RACVIAC) was opened in the Vitez
Damir Martic barracks in Rakitje near Zagreb on Friday.
The centre will operate within the Stability Pact for South Eastern
Europe's Working Table on security issues.#L#
Present at the opening were Croatian Defence Minister Jozo Rados,
Stability Pact chief coordinator Bodo Hombach, a state secretary at
the German defence ministry, Walter Kolbow, assistants to
Croatia's defence minister and armed forces chief-of-staff, and
representatives of the president's office, the foreign and
European integration ministries.
Also in attendance were representatives of the diplomatic corps and
military envoys to Croatia.
RACVIAC is a vanguard project of the Stability Pact and an example-
setting quick-start project, said Hombach. He thanked the Croatian
and German governments as the project's initiator and sponsor.
RACVIAC was initiated by the German and accepted by the government
of Croatia as the partner country. At present it gathers 18
countries with active engagement.
RACVIAC will operate as a forum for dialogue among the countries in
the region. The adoption of joint standards and models will make it
easier for the countries to completely and exactly implement an
arms control accord they signed.
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