CRO TO PROMOTE ITS DANUBE RIVER COUNTIES IN WORKING COMMUNITY OF DANUBE RIVER REGIONS

ZAGREB, Oct 19 (Hina) - While chairing the Woking Community of Danube River Regions 2000, Croatia will promote its Danube River counties; Osijek-Baranja County and Vukovar Srijem County, Secretary of the Croatian Foreign Ministry Gordan Grlic-Radman said in Zagreb on Tuesday. At the 10th conference of prime ministers held in the Hungarian town of Nagycenk on October 8, Croatia took over the one-year long chairmanship over the Working Community of Danube River regions for the year 2000. As the chairing country, Croatia plans to organise economic and cultural forums of regions, and will organise a youth working group, and the duty of the group would be the promotion of the cooperation between youth of Working Community regions. As the chairing country, Croatia also plans to direct special attention to the navigability of the Danube River which was interrupted by NATO's demolition of a bridge near the Yugoslav town of Novi Sad. According to Grlic-Radman, the obstacle in solving this problem is the fact that Serbia fails to appear at meetings of the Working Community. The Working Community of Danube River Regions includes 24 regions from 11 Danube River basin countries, namely an area of 650,000 square kilometres with about 80 million people. The Working Community of Danube River Regions was founded in 1990, and Croatia has been actively participating since 1991. 8hina) it jn