TOMCIC VERY SATISFIED WITH HIS VISIT TO FINLAND AND ESTONIA

ZAGREB, Oct 20 (Hina) - Finland and Estonia showed understanding for political circumstances in Croatia and offered their support to Croatia's endeavours aimed at having its achievements assessed individually as regards its admission into the European Union, Sabor Speaker Zlatko Tomcic said on Friday night upon his return from these two European countries where he had been on a visit since Monday. He described the tour to Helsinki and Tallinn as very successful. In the opinion of the Croatian national parliament's head, it is important for Zagreb to enjoy the support of Finland which is an EU member-state, and of Estonia, which is in the first group of countries-applicants for the accession into the EU. Tomcic told reporters at the Zagreb airport that his talks with officials of Finland and Estonia had focused both on the parliamentary and economic cooperation. He assessed that there would be necessary to enhance the current bilateral economic cooperation and trade. During the visit which the Sabor's delegation led by Tomcic paid to Helsinki from 16 to 19 October, a parliamentary group of the Finnish-Croatian friendship was established, and several days prior to the arrival of Croatian delegation to Estonia, a similar group was set up in Tallinn where the Croatian MPs were on 19 and 20 October. (hina) ms