CROATIA TO ATTEND SECI PROGRAMME COMMITTEE SESSION AS MONITOR

GENEVA, Oct 14 (Hina) - The programme committee of the South-Eastern European Cooperation Initiative (SECI) is to hold its fourth session in Geneva on Wednesday. The meeting has been called by the Initiative's coordinator, former Austrian vice-chancellor Erhard Busek, and will gather representatives of ten countries making up the SECI: Albania, Bulgaria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Greece, Hungary, Macedonia, Moldova, Romania, Slovenia and Turkey. Croatia will have monitor status. The meeting should discuss activities of expert groups in charge of preparing and implementing projects in which some countries, or groups of countries, are interested. These projects include roads and power supply infrastructure development, stimulation of trade and direct foreign investing in small and medium-sized enterprise, and a project on the restoration of transport along the Danube river. Croatia is not a member of the SECI, but is interested in taking part in some projects, especially projects on improving border crossing flow, eliminating bottlenecks in transport corridors, integrating the Croatian electric power supply system into the European system, and restoring transport along the Danube. Croatian experts partook in the drafting of documents for some of the mentioned projects over the past few months. Croatian Assistant Foreign Minister Spomenka Cek will head the Croatian delegation at tomorrow's meeting. (hina) ha jn 141605 MET oct 97