ROME, June 26 (Hina) - Croatian Foreign Minister Mate Granic on Thursday arrived in Italy for a three-day official visit as head of a Croatian delegation. He is to hold talks with his Italian counterpart Lamberto Dini on
Friday.
ROME, June 26 (Hina) - Croatian Foreign Minister Mate Granic on Thursday
arrived in Italy for a three-day official visit as head of a Croatian
delegation. He is to hold talks with his Italian counterpart Lamberto
Dini on Friday. #L#
Granic and Dini are scheduled to sign four bilateral agreements: on
the handing over of persons staying in either country without a permit,
on social and health care, on tourist cooperation and on the
cancellation of a requirement for Croatian and Italian citizens to carry
passports when entering the other country.
The two ministers are also expected to discuss a friendship and
cooperation agreement, which may be signed in the autumn during an
announced visit of Italian President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro to Croatia.
During Granic's visit to Rome, the undersecretaries of the Italian
and Croatian foreign ministries will sign a memorandum on Italy's
financial assistance to Croatia on the basis of an Italian law on the
financing of projects for the economic development of Central European
countries.
On Friday morning, Granic will meet Vatican Secretary of State
Cardinal Angelo Sodano.
Granic will present the Rector of the Croatian Papal Institute of
St Jerome, Msgr Jure Bogdan, with a personal gift from Croatian
President Franjo Tudjman.
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