OSLO OSLO, Oct 14 (Hina) - At the first session of the Stability Pact Task Force in Oslo Thursday, Croatia suggested the establishment of a regional mine-clearance and training centre in Croatia, national Stability Pact coordinator
Vladimir Drobnjak told Hina. The first meeting of the Task Force began in Oslo on Wednesday and will end on Friday night. Croatia is represented by a delegation comprising representatives of the interior, foreign and defence ministries, and is headed by Assistant Foreign Minister Vladimir Drobnjak. The regional mine-clearance centre would, according to the motion by Croatian representatives, be located on the Croatian Adriatic coast and would function all year round. The Croatian initiative received approval, Drobnjak said. "We believe that some time soon, probably before the end of the year, the initiative will be adopted and we will receive the necessary funds for organising the centre,"
OSLO, Oct 14 (Hina) - At the first session of the Stability Pact Task
Force in Oslo Thursday, Croatia suggested the establishment of a
regional mine-clearance and training centre in Croatia, national
Stability Pact coordinator Vladimir Drobnjak told Hina.
The first meeting of the Task Force began in Oslo on Wednesday and
will end on Friday night.
Croatia is represented by a delegation comprising representatives
of the interior, foreign and defence ministries, and is headed by
Assistant Foreign Minister Vladimir Drobnjak.
The regional mine-clearance centre would, according to the motion
by Croatian representatives, be located on the Croatian Adriatic
coast and would function all year round.
The Croatian initiative received approval, Drobnjak said.
"We believe that some time soon, probably before the end of the
year, the initiative will be adopted and we will receive the
necessary funds for organising the centre," he said.
He explained that concrete suggestions motioned by representatives
of a number of countries would not be adopted or rejected in Oslo.
Rather, The task Force chairman, Swedish Foreign State Secretary,
Jan Eliasson, will cite conclusions during the afternoon which will
be forwarded into the future work of the body.
The meeting in Oslo clearly confirmed the Euro-Atlantic dimensions
of the Stability Pact, and NATO representatives stressed that they
intended to take on a more active role in the Pact, Drobnjak said.
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