ZAGREB, Feb 14 (Hina) - Croatian President Franjo Tudjman on Friday received credentials of ambassadors from Mexico, Thailand, Moldavia and Australia.
ZAGREB, Feb 14 (Hina) - Croatian President Franjo Tudjman on Friday
received credentials of ambassadors from Mexico, Thailand, Moldavia
and Australia. #L#
Receiving credentials from the Vienna-based extraordinary and
plenipotentiary Mexican Ambassador to Croatia Roberta Lajous
Vargas, Tudjman said that Mexico and Croatia could together
contribute to international cooperation, especially because they
had joint historic motives in the fight for independence and
democracy.
Vargas expressed her conviction that Mexico and Croatia would
support each other in the expansion of international cooperation.
Tudjman then received credentials from the extraordinary and
plenipotentiary Budapest-based Thai ambassador to Croatia, Pradap
Pibulsonggram. Tudjman stressed that "good relations between
Croatia and Thailand would be of mutual benefit not only to our
countries, but also to the strengthening of peace in the present-
day world".
Our country had a long history and great culture as yours and
I hold that both countries could play an enormous role in the
international community, Pibulsonggram said.
Accepting credentials from the extraordinary and
plenipotentiary Budapest-based Moldavian Ambassador, Alexei
Andrievschi, Tudjman expressed great satisfaction with the
establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries,
because the Moldavian and Croatian people had succeeded to obtain
their independence and today had the possibility to "express
themselves in the international community, Europe and the world".
Andrievschi expressed conviction that the relations between
the two countries could be on a higher level.
Tudjman also received credentials from the Vienna-based
Australian Ambassador to Croatia, Lance Louis Ettleson Joseph.
Tudjman recalled that "Australia is the homeland of almost a
quarter of a million Croatian emigrants".
"Economic relations between our two countries are not how they
could be," Tudjman said, adding that "conditions for them to become
more fertile and to mutual benefit have been created".
Our bilateral relations stood on a firm base which was the
large Croatian community in Australia, Joseph said, adding that he
would do everything to stimulate economic and political relations
between the two countries.
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