WASHINGTON, June 7 (Hina) - Croatia's Foreign Minister Tonino Picula and a former US Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, on Thursday held cordial talks. Picula informed Albright, who is now the president of the National Democratic
Institute, of Croatia's assessments of the developments in Bosnia-Herzegovina. He reiterated that Zagreb had given up plans for the development of the so-called special relations with one entity (the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina) and added that his country maintained that the same should be done in the relations between Belgrade and the other Bosnian entity - the Republic of Srpska. Picula thanked Albright for her great assistance she had offered to Croatia in its bids to enter the World Trade Organisation, NATO's Partnership for Peace Programme and to initial a Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA) with the European Union. Albright said Croatia's successes
WASHINGTON, June 7 (Hina) - Croatia's Foreign Minister Tonino
Picula and a former US Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, on
Thursday held cordial talks. Picula informed Albright, who is now
the president of the National Democratic Institute, of Croatia's
assessments of the developments in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
He reiterated that Zagreb had given up plans for the development of
the so-called special relations with one entity (the Federation of
Bosnia-Herzegovina) and added that his country maintained that the
same should be done in the relations between Belgrade and the other
Bosnian entity - the Republic of Srpska.
Picula thanked Albright for her great assistance she had offered to
Croatia in its bids to enter the World Trade Organisation, NATO's
Partnership for Peace Programme and to initial a Stabilisation and
Association Agreement (SAA) with the European Union.
Albright said Croatia's successes instilled her with satisfaction,
and expressed her support to Zagreb's bid to come closer to
EuroAtlantic structures.
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