Addressing the event, organised by the government's office for human rights in cooperation with the independent Asylum Commission, Kosor said that the national legislation in this field was completely adjusted to the European Union's acquis communautaire which meant that conditions for being granted asylum in Croatia and the EU were exactly alike.
She went on to say that progress had been made with the building of a centre for asylum seekers in Kutina, 70 kilometres southeast of Zagreb, and with the enactment of the Asylum Law last year.
The said commission's chairman Vanja Pudic cited an example of an Afghan man who had been given asylum in Croatia after Taliban forces had tried to use him as suicide bomber.
Pudic said that a majority of asylum applications had been coming from Asian countries Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, India and Pakistan as well as from African countries Somalia and Nigeria over the recent months.
On the other hand, the number od asylum seekers from the area of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is going down.
Currently, 47 asylum seekers are accommodated in Kutina, and a few people waiting for the deportation are in the Jezevo centre, outside Zagreb, he added.