COPENHAGEN, 9 April (Hina) - Opened doors to the Council of Europe, PHARE program, an agreement on cooperation and Croatia's later admission to the European Union as an associate member and membership in the Partnership for Peace
represented aims of high national interest for Croatia, Croatian Foreign Minister Mate Granic told memmbers of the Danish Sociaty for foreign policy and diplomatic corps in Copenhagen.
COPENHAGEN, 9 April (Hina) - Opened doors to the Council of Europe,
PHARE program, an agreement on cooperation and Croatia's later
admission to the European Union as an associate member and
membership in the Partnership for Peace represented aims of high
national interest for Croatia, Croatian Foreign Minister Mate
Granic told memmbers of the Danish Sociaty for foreign policy and
diplomatic corps in Copenhagen. #L#
Minister Granic today started a two-day official visit to
Denmark.
Speaking about the implementation of the Dayton agreements,
Granic said that the lasting peace in the region depended primarely
on the 'determination of the international community, which lacked
quite often in the past'.
CRoatia wanted to take part in the 'creation of a new, general
model of security in the Europe of the 21st century', which could
prevent new tragic experiences in south-eastern Europe or anywhere
else in Europe.
Granic also spoke about the real reasons of the Serbian
aggression against Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, which are "part
of the myth, ideology and philosophy of 'great Serbia".
Granic recalled the fact that the Serbs have recently left
Sarajevo suburbs with plunder and arson. The same thing heppened in
Croatia in August 1995, he added.
'The ethnic cleansing they carried out against other peoples
has resulted with their own ethnic cleansing', Granic stressed.
A key to the full normalisation in the region was the peaceful
reintegration of the remaining occupied areas of eastern Slavonia,
Baranja and western Srijem, he said.
'It is our firm belief that the process of peaceful
reintegration should be intensified and completed with the help of
the interantional community', Granic stressed.
Speaking about the 'scandinavisation' of the region, Granic
said that this idea of Croatian President Franjo Tudjman included
full political emancipation of all peoples in the region, that is,
the process of the establishment of national states.
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