I did not see that there were any reservations. The Czech Republic will find a solution how to ratify the Croatian treaty, Bebic told Hina after his talks with Czech Prime Minister Petr Necas.
Bebic said that Prague had always supported Croatia, including its road towards its full NATO membership and its EU membership bid, and the talks with his hosts in Prague had also focused on the bilateral relations once Croatia joined the Union.
It is still uncertain whether the vote on the ratification of the Croatia-EU treaty and on the Czech exemption from the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights as part of the Treaty of Lisbon will be combined or held separately.
Preliminarily it was agreed in Brussels that the Czech exemption, which was requested by President Vaclav Klaus in 2009, would be added to the text of Croatia's EU accession treaty so that it may be adopted in all EU member states.
However, Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg has recently said that those two votes will probably be held separately in the Czech parliament as those are two different kinds of contract. The government led by Prime Minister Petr Necas, however, has so far advocated the merger of the voting on the two matters. Although they support Croatia's EU entry, the opposition Social Democrats oppose the opt-out for the Czech Republic which is why the combined vote could cause problems for some time, no matter that all parliamentary parties are for Croatia's EU membership.
Bebic believes that Croatia's treaty would be ratified on time regardless of the outcome of internal developments on the Czech political scene, as all political parties in the Czech Republic support Croatia's admission to the EU.
The Bebic-Necas talks also focused on the economic cooperation, including infrastructure projects and transport.
Bebic said that the Czech side had expressed interest in the construction of a liquefied gas terminal on the Croatian Adriatic coast and a railway and inland water corridor through central Europe.
Prime Minister Necas thanked Croatia for high standards in the protection of national minorities and said that the Czech community in Croatia was the best organised Czech minority abroad, Bebic said adding that the Croatian delegation pointed out a recommendation that ethnic Croats in South Moravia could be given better treatment.
Upon his arrival in Prague on Thursday for his-two day official visit, Bebic held talks with the speaker of the Czech House of Representatives, Miroslava Nemcova. Later on Friday he will be received by Milan Stech, the speaker of the parliament's upper house.