SARAJEVO, July 29 (Hina) - Croatia believes that the Stability Pact will prevent all previous individual, sometimes hasty, regional principles which could have resulted in any form of Balkan association, Croatian Prime Minister Zlatko
Matesa said in Sarajevo on Thursday.
SARAJEVO, July 29 (Hina) - Croatia believes that the Stability Pact
will prevent all previous individual, sometimes hasty, regional
principles which could have resulted in any form of Balkan
association, Croatian Prime Minister Zlatko Matesa said in
Sarajevo on Thursday.#L#
Croatia assessed that the Stability Pact would be useful and
believed it was a "wide, equal and good basis for cooperation among
all countries in the region, and their individual cooperation with
the European Union and Atlantic integration, as well as for overall
peace processes in the entire region.
Today's regional summit will be attended by delegations from
Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia,
Hungary, Romania, Slovenia, Turkey, Switzerland, which requested
to join the Pact, and representatives of NATO, United Nations, and
the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
The meeting will be opened by Finnish President Marti Ahtisaari.
Member of the Bosnia-Herzegovina Presidency Alija Izetbegovic and
EU special coordinator for the Stability Pact Bodo Hombach will
also speak at the summit.
At the closed part of the meeting, delegations will present reports
on areas which are the basis of the Stability Pact - democratisation
and human rights, economic reconstruction, cooperation and
development, and security issues.
A press conference is scheduled to be held after the summit.
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