GENEVA, March 24 (Hina) - The Programme Committee of the Southeastern Europe
Cooperation Initiative (SECI) held its second meeting on Monday.
The meting focused on political frameworks and modalities of the work
of SECI. During the meeting, Croatian and Slovenian delegations reiterated
their stances hat they could not accept the status of members of the
initiative for now, but they also reiterated the interest of their
governments and economic subjects for certain development projects.
During the discussion, SECI coordinator Ernard Busek accepted the
Croatian delegation's amendments which more clearly state that SECI was not
an integration group, but an elastic frame for the initiation and
realisation of concrete projects and programmes the member countries were
interested in.
At the request of the Croatian delegation, an article of the SECI work
document was removed. The article envisaged the possibility of a later
acceptance of stricter regulations of the work of the Iniciative, that is,
the possibility of its firmer institutionalisation.
After the second session of the Programme Committee, it could be said
that SECI found the way from the conception of its initiators to its
economic realisation difficult. The fears and assessments established at the
start of the Initiative had been proven true, that member countries were not
enough turned towards mutual trade, mostly because of their different
degrees of development and developmental priorities and interests.
On the other hand, international private capital is very hard to draw
in, especially into the southeastern sector of the Balkan peninsula, which
is still labelled with great economic and political instability.
The doubt of central European countries' representatives present at
SECI meetings regarding its true prospects and final results is perfectly
understandable.
The Croatian delegation consisted of Croatian Assistant Foreign
Minister, Spomenka Cek, Ambassador Darko Bekic and head of a Foreign
Ministry office, Dunja Jevak.
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