ZAGREB, Jan 4 (Hina) - Croatian President Franjo Tudjman left for Sarajevo Thursday morning to attend the first session of the newly designed Council for Cooperation between the Republic of Croatia and the Federation and Republic of
Bosnia-Herzegovina.
ZAGREB, Jan 4 (Hina) - Croatian President Franjo Tudjman left for
Sarajevo Thursday morning to attend the first session of the newly
designed Council for Cooperation between the Republic of Croatia
and the Federation and Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina. #L#
The delegation also comprised President Tudjman's chief-of-
staff Ivo Sanader, prime minister Zlatko Matesa, foreign minister
Mate Granic, deputy prime ministers Borislav Skegro and Ljerka
Mintas-Hodak, defence minister Gojko Susak and an aide to the
foreign minister, Hido Biscevic.
"This first session of the Council is to mark the new era in
relations between Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina," President
Tudjman told reporters at the Zagreb airport.
"Today we should create a basic framework for a lasting and
systematic cooperation and linking of Croatia and Federation of
Bosnia-Herzegovina on all fields -- economic, customs, cultural --
all to coordination in foreign policy and military fields," he
added.
President Tudjman was seen of by parliament speaker Vlatko
Pavletic, deputy prime minister Ivica Kostovic, interior minister
Ivan Jarnjak, Croatian army chief-of-staff General Zvonimir
Cervenko and manager of the Zagreb airport Tomislav Leko.
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