Addressing the signing ceremony, Croatian Minister of the Interior Davor Bozinovic said that the signing of the agreement was a step forward in the two countries' security cooperation.
The project "Safe Tourist Season" has been going on in Croatia for 12 years, involving 17 countries, and we are particularly pleased that China is the first non-European country to join it, said Bozinovic.
He noted that the number of Chinese visitors in Croatia this year was 60% higher than in 2016, when 100,000 Chinese visited the country.
Bozinovic expressed satisfaction with the fact that China and Croatia cooperated in many areas regarding the 16+1 initiative, as well as in the field of security.
A special envoy of the Chinese president, Meng Jianzhu, welcomed the agreement with the Croatian police, noting that Croatia was an important Central European country with rich tourism resources and that his country wanted to strengthen its cooperation with Croatia to the benefit of both peoples.
Meng said that today's talks also tackled the fight against terrorism and that the two sides agreed that they should step up their cooperation in the prevention of organised and cross-border crime.