ZAGREB, Nov 24 (Hina) - Opening Friday's Zagreb Summit together with Croatian President Stipe Mesic, French counterpart Jacques Chirac on behalf of the European Union confirmed the "association prospect" for five Southeast Europe
countries covered by the Stabilisation and Association Process.
ZAGREB, Nov 24 (Hina) - Opening Friday's Zagreb Summit together
with Croatian President Stipe Mesic, French counterpart Jacques
Chirac on behalf of the European Union confirmed the "association
prospect" for five Southeast Europe countries covered by the
Stabilisation and Association Process. #L#
"Today's conference provides me with the opportunity to confirm on
behalf of the European Union that prospect for the region's five
countries, on the basis of the European Union Contract, the respect
of political and economic criteria from Copenhagen, and the
progress that will be made in the implementation of the
Stabilisation and Association Agreement, especially in the field
of regional cooperation," Chirac said.
"Today we celebrate democracy, humanism, the respect for the other.
These are values to which all the peoples represented here aspire,"
he told 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.
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