ROME, Jan 16 (Hina) - A two-day meeting of the Italian-Croatian commission, ended in Rome, has almost completed an agreement on protection the Italian minority in Croatia and the Croatian minority in Italy. The session heard many
opinions on settling the legal and property issues.
ROME, Jan 16 (Hina) - A two-day meeting of the Italian-Croatian
commission, ended in Rome, has almost completed an agreement on
protection the Italian minority in Croatia and the Croatian
minority in Italy. The session heard many opinions on settling the
legal and property issues. #L#
A Croatian delegation was led by an aide to the Croatian
Foreign Minister, Ambassador Hidajet Biscevic, and an Italian
delegation was headed by Ambassador Vincenzo Manno.
The agreement on the minorities' protection, which should be
broadened by some technical details, provides for the protection of
the Croatian minority in the region of Molise and other
autochtonous Croats in Italian areas.
The delegations exchanged views on legal and property issues,
and on the compensation for property left by Italian optants in the
former "zone B" in Istria, including the Buje area in Croatia and
the Kopar area in Slovenia. It was said that the problem should be
solved by international agreements and the International Law.
During the visit to Rome on Monday, Fido Biscevic talked with
the head of the Italian Foreign Ministry department for
neighbouring countries, Ms. Laura Mirochiani. He expressed the
Croatian views on a role of the EU and Italy in the peace process
in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
The Italian side was especially interested in the situation in
Mostar and in the Zagreb-Belgrade relations. Biscevic stressed that
it was necessary that Italy and Europe should participate in the
process of peaceful reintegration of eastern Slavonia in the
Croatian legal and constitutional system. He warned that one should
not observe the situation in Mostar one-sidedly and blame only the
Croatian side for the slow implementation of the Dayton deal
provisions on this town.
"The situation in Mostar is a mirror of the insufficient
Bosniac (Moslem) political readiness to breath more life into the
Croat-Bosniac Federation," Biscevic said and stressed that many
matters would be settled immediately when a federal government be
established to assume responsibility for what is going on.
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