ZAGREB, Nov 27 (Hina) - A two-day session of the International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River (ICPDR) began on Monday in Sofia, Bulgaria. At this session, Croatia was selected to hold the rotating presidency over
the ICPDR in 2001. A spokeswoman for the Croatian Foreign Ministry, Miona Sevcik, told Hina, that the chairman of this commission would be Stanko Nick, an advisor to Croatian President Stjepan Mesic and the incoming ambassador to Hungary. During the third plenary session in Sofia, the Commission's member-countries are discussing the environmental protection of the Danube and its tributaries. They are expected to discuss the introduction of an information system for speedy reports on possible ecological incidents. Officials of the Commission's member-states called on Yugoslavia to ratify a convention on the protection of the Danube and thus become the ICPDR full-member. T
ZAGREB, Nov 27 (Hina) - A two-day session of the International
Commission for the Protection of the Danube River (ICPDR) began on
Monday in Sofia, Bulgaria.
At this session, Croatia was selected to hold the rotating
presidency over the ICPDR in 2001.
A spokeswoman for the Croatian Foreign Ministry, Miona Sevcik, told
Hina, that the chairman of this commission would be Stanko Nick, an
advisor to Croatian President Stjepan Mesic and the incoming
ambassador to Hungary.
During the third plenary session in Sofia, the Commission's member-
countries are discussing the environmental protection of the
Danube and its tributaries.
They are expected to discuss the introduction of an information
system for speedy reports on possible ecological incidents.
Officials of the Commission's member-states called on Yugoslavia
to ratify a convention on the protection of the Danube and thus
become the ICPDR full-member.
To date the convention has been signed and ratified by Germany,
Austria, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary, Romania,
Croatia and the European Union.
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