BRIJUNI, Dec 2 (Hina) - Ahead of his meeting with Swiss and German businessmen on the northern Adriatic islands of Brijuni, Croatian President Stipe Mesic on Saturday morning received visitors of the Brijuni National Park. Answering
to questions of visitors and reports on Friday's break-in into attorney Ante Nobilo's office, in which transcripts of Mesic's testimony in The Hague were filed, the Croatian President said that Nobilo shouldn't have waved around with those discs and practically inviting someone to steal them. Those who stole the discs know why they did it, and most like Nobilo knows something as well because he is not a naive person, Mesic said. He reiterated that he had advocated that crimes be treated individually in order to avoid collective guilt. Addressing the Croatian-Slovene relations, President Mesic said there were no problems in the relations between the two countries, and that all excess situation s
BRIJUNI, Dec 2 (Hina) - Ahead of his meeting with Swiss and German
businessmen on the northern Adriatic islands of Brijuni, Croatian
President Stipe Mesic on Saturday morning received visitors of the
Brijuni National Park.
Answering to questions of visitors and reports on Friday's break-in
into attorney Ante Nobilo's office, in which transcripts of Mesic's
testimony in The Hague were filed, the Croatian President said that
Nobilo shouldn't have waved around with those discs and practically
inviting someone to steal them. Those who stole the discs know why
they did it, and most like Nobilo knows something as well because he
is not a naive person, Mesic said.
He reiterated that he had advocated that crimes be treated
individually in order to avoid collective guilt.
Addressing the Croatian-Slovene relations, President Mesic said
there were no problems in the relations between the two countries,
and that all excess situation should be avoided.
The priority should be Piran Bay, Sveta Gera border line and the
return of the debt of the former Ljubljana bank to Croatian
depositors.
Commenting on protests of citizens of the northern Adriatic
peninsula of Istria against frequent military manoeuvres, Mesic
said that the holding of the manoeuvres were not such a big of an
issue at the moment, when the tourist season was over. He added that
a special regulation should set the time and place of the holding of
the manoeuvres. He added that joint Croatian-American military
manoeuvres were useful for the Croatian Armed Forces in Croatia's
approaching world standards and NATO.
When asked when will the government and president fulfill their
electoral promises, Mesic said the pace of the realisation of those
promises depended on international relations.
Nobody knew how much money leaked out of Croatia during the 10-year
rule of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ). The money has been
taken out of Croatia, many companies are ruined, people lost their
jobs and it is necessary to start an economic machine as soon as
possible, which is impossible without foreign investments. I shall
discuss this with German and Swiss businessmen today, Mesic
stressed.
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