PORTO CARRAS, June 21 (Hina) - Individual approach to European associations, asserted at the Zagreb Summit in 2000, still holds good, but it is not in any opposition to regional cooperation, Croatian President Stjepan Mesic said in
his address at the EU-Western Balkans Summit in Porto Carras on Saturday.
PORTO CARRAS, June 21 (Hina) - Individual approach to European
associations, asserted at the Zagreb Summit in 2000, still holds
good, but it is not in any opposition to regional cooperation,
Croatian President Stjepan Mesic said in his address at the EU-
Western Balkans Summit in Porto Carras on Saturday. #L#
"The principle of individual accession, asserted at the Zagreb
Summit, still holds good. But it is not in any opposition to
regional cooperation which is an unavoidable step en route to
united Europe," Mesic said at the Summit of EU heads and five
countries included in the Stabilisation and Association process
(SAp) -- Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro,
Macedonia, and Albania.
Croatia has the strength, ability and will to meet political and
economic requirements for entry into the EU, Mesic said. Croatia
will persevere in the war against global terrorism and organised
crime, as well as in efforts to overcome the aftermath of the wars in
the former Yugoslavia, including full cooperation with the Hague's
UN war crimes tribunal.
"We want to become part of the great European family. We will do our
part in the job. In this endeavour we expect your help and support,"
the president concluded.
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