ZAGREB, June 15 (Hina) - Croatia's President Franjo Tudjman on Tuesday departed from Zagreb to the Republic of South Africa on a three-day visit where he will attend the ceremony of the inauguration of the new South African President,
Thabo Mbeki, at an invitation of Nelson Mandela. Prior to his departure, Tudjman said his meeting with Croatian immigrants in that country would be also interesting for him. There are about eight and a half thousand people who seem to be preparing to move out, he said in that context. Asked whether he was expecting bilateral meetings with other presidents in South Africa, Tudjman said that at an event which would gather dozens of statesmen "bilateral meetings are inevitable because of mutual interests." During his trip Tudjman is being accompanied by the Sabor's House of Counties Vice-President Ivan Aralica, Foreign Minister Mate Granic and Croatia's Ambassador to the European Union an
ZAGREB, June 15 (Hina) - Croatia's President Franjo Tudjman on
Tuesday departed from Zagreb to the Republic of South Africa on a
three-day visit where he will attend the ceremony of the
inauguration of the new South African President, Thabo Mbeki, at an
invitation of Nelson Mandela.
Prior to his departure, Tudjman said his meeting with Croatian
immigrants in that country would be also interesting for him.
There are about eight and a half thousand people who seem to be
preparing to move out, he said in that context.
Asked whether he was expecting bilateral meetings with other
presidents in South Africa, Tudjman said that at an event which
would gather dozens of statesmen "bilateral meetings are
inevitable because of mutual interests."
During his trip Tudjman is being accompanied by the Sabor's House of
Counties Vice-President Ivan Aralica, Foreign Minister Mate Granic
and Croatia's Ambassador to the European Union and NATO, Janko
Vranyczany-Dobrinovic. They are to meet representatives of the
Croatian community in Johannesburg and Capetown as well.
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