FOREIGN MINISTER PETERLE TO REPRESENT SLOVENIA AT ZAGREB SUMMIT

LJUBLJANA, Nov 16 (Hina) - Slovene Foreign Minister Lojze Peterle will be representing his country at the Zagreb Summit, to take place on November 24 in the Croatian capital. The Slovene minister said on Thursday the Slovene president and foreign minister had been invited to the summit but it was decided that only the foreign minister should travel because Slovenia's proposal that the summit give more emphasis to the succession to the former Yugoslav federation did not receive sufficient support. Peterle added Slovenia supported the European Union's idea on the stabilisation and association of countries in the region. Ljubljana will support the closing document of the summit, which it will attend as a country of "central European and Mediterranean mentality." The Zagreb Summit will gather 25 delegations, including 15 European Union representatives, five countries in the process of stabilisation and association with the EU, Slovenia, which is an associate EU member, the EU's high representative for foreign and security issues, Javier Solana, High Representative for Bosnia- Herzegovina Wolfgang Petritsch, Stability Pact Coordinator Bodo Hombach, and the head of the U.N. Mission in Kosovo, Bernard Kouchner. (hina) jn rml