ZAGREB SUMMIT - PART ONE ZAGREB, Nov 24 (Hina) - Croatian President Stipe Mesic opened the Zagreb Summit, a conference of European Union member states and countries of Southeast Europe, at Intercontinental hotel shortly after 10.00
hours on Friday. "Zagreb and Croatia see the holding of our conference as an acknowledgement, but also as an obligation," Mesic said welcoming the chiefs of state or government of 15 EU member states and countries covered by the Stabilisation and Association Process - Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Albania, and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The biggest statesmen conference in Croatian history is co-chaired by Mesic and French President Jacques Chirac, whose country presides the EU. Opening the Summit, Mesic also mentioned today's demonstrations in Zagreb which he said showed that "Croatia is not immune to problems faced by other countries in transition as well." The demonstrators protest the attendance
ZAGREB, Nov 24 (Hina) - Croatian President Stipe Mesic opened the
Zagreb Summit, a conference of European Union member states and
countries of Southeast Europe, at Intercontinental hotel shortly
after 10.00 hours on Friday.
"Zagreb and Croatia see the holding of our conference as an
acknowledgement, but also as an obligation," Mesic said welcoming
the chiefs of state or government of 15 EU member states and
countries covered by the Stabilisation and Association Process -
Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Albania, and the
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
The biggest statesmen conference in Croatian history is co-chaired
by Mesic and French President Jacques Chirac, whose country
presides the EU.
Opening the Summit, Mesic also mentioned today's demonstrations in
Zagreb which he said showed that "Croatia is not immune to problems
faced by other countries in transition as well."
The demonstrators protest the attendance of Yugoslav President
Vojislav Kostunica.
(hina) ha