STARSBOURG, 9 Oct (Hina) - A Croatian state delegation, headed by President Franjo Tudjman, arrived in Strasbourg Thursday night. The delegation is to attend the second summit of the Council of Europe, which is to take place on Friday
and Saturday.
STARSBOURG, 9 Oct (Hina) - A Croatian state delegation, headed by
President Franjo Tudjman, arrived in Strasbourg Thursday night. The
delegation is to attend the second summit of the Council of Europe,
which is to take place on Friday and Saturday. #L#
During the summit, President Tudjman is to have several
bilateral meetings with the highest officials from several European
countries and the Council of Europe.
It is expected that the President will address the
participants of the summit early on Saturday.
The Croatian delegation includes Foreign Minister Mate Granic,
Presidential Chief-Of-Staff Hrvoje Sarinic, Parliament Vice
President and the head of the Croatian parliamentary delegation in
the Council of Europe, Zarko Domljan, Croatia's Ambassador in the
European Union, Janko Vraniczany-Dobrinovic, Croatia's Ambassador
with the Council of Europe, Vladimir Matek, Ambassador to Paris,
Smiljan Simac, presidential advisor on foreign policy, Neven Madey
and the head of the President's cabinet, Gordan Radin.
The second summit of the Council of Europe will be opened on
Friday by the French President Jacques Chirac, Council of Europe's
Secretary General Daniel Tarschys and the President of the
Parliamentary Assembly, Leni Fischer.
On the first day of the summit, the participants will be
addressed by the German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, Britain's Premier
Tony Blair and the Russian President Boris Yeltsin.
The summit will bring together heads of state and government
of the Council of Europe's 40 member states as well as the leaders
of countries with special guest status - Armenia, Azerbaijan,
Bosnia-Herzegovina and Georgia - and heads of countries with
observer status - Canada, Japan and the United States, as well as
the representatives of the Holy See, Organisation for Security and
Cooperation in Europe and the European Union.
The summit is aimed at supporting the further strengthening of
democratic security and stability in Europe. With that aim, all
heads of countries and governments should adopt a final statement
and a plan of action, which include the issues of human rights,
pluralist democracy, social cohesion, general security of citizens
ad development of democratic values.
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