Addressing the event, Minister Pejcinovic Buric underscored the most important diplomatic activities in the outgoing year: Croatia's chairmanship over the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers, the recent Zagreb summit meeting marking the end of Croatia's year-long presidency of the Central European Initiative, and the fifth anniversary of Croatia's admission to the European Union.
Pjecinovic Buric spoke about Croatia's preparations for accession to the Schengen zone and the euro area and preparations for Croatia's presidency of the EU in the first half of 2020 and Croatia's OECD membership bid as priorities in 2019.
She recalled that Croatia wold host a China+16 summit meeting in April.