Chairman Zvonko Makovic announced that a Croatian PEN delegation would take part in a regional conference, scheduled to take place in the Slovene lakeside resort of Bled on 24 March, and in a PEN congress in Berlin in May.
Bosniak and Spanish writers Dzevad Karahasan and Jose Maria Lopera became honorary members of the Croatian PEN Centre.
A proposal made by Ljiljana Gjurgjan that the assembly should protest against the decision under which the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Briton Harold Pinter, who had politically supported former Yugoslav autocrat and war crime indictee Slobodan Milosevic, caused contrary opinions at the meeting.
At the end, the assembly decided to inform the PEN main office in London that it was not opposed to the Nobel Prize having been awarded to Pinter.