ROME, July 16 (Hina) - An under secretary at the Italian Foreign Ministry, Umberto Ranieri, on Friday said Croatia's road into Europe will depend exclusively on Croatia itself. Ranieri addressed a meeting on preparations for the
Stability Pact for South East Europe, held at the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Rome. The attending Croatian delegation was headed by Assistant Foreign Minister Zeljko Kupresak. Ranieri said every country signatory to the Stability Pact will by itself decide on the stages, speed, and degree of its integration with European institutions. The Rome meeting served to prepare documents which should be signed in Sarajevo on July 29, at a summit of countries of the European Union (EU) and South East Europe. Ranieri pointed to the importance of seeing what and how much every country can do to approach the EU as soon as possible. Stronger cooperation and
ROME, July 16 (Hina) - An under secretary at the Italian Foreign
Ministry, Umberto Ranieri, on Friday said Croatia's road into
Europe will depend exclusively on Croatia itself.
Ranieri addressed a meeting on preparations for the Stability Pact
for South East Europe, held at the Italian Ministry of Foreign
Affairs in Rome. The attending Croatian delegation was headed by
Assistant Foreign Minister Zeljko Kupresak.
Ranieri said every country signatory to the Stability Pact will by
itself decide on the stages, speed, and degree of its integration
with European institutions.
The Rome meeting served to prepare documents which should be signed
in Sarajevo on July 29, at a summit of countries of the European
Union (EU) and South East Europe.
Ranieri pointed to the importance of seeing what and how much every
country can do to approach the EU as soon as possible. Stronger
cooperation and dialogue in the region will be of outstanding
importance in the integration chain, he stressed.
Also participating in the Rome meeting were delegations of Albania,
Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Macedonia, as well as of the Yugoslav
Republic of Montenegro, which is to have special observer status in
the Stability Pact.
It was pointed out Serbia, the other republic making the Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia, cannot be included in the pact as long it
retains the authorities which caused the destabilisation of the
entire South East Europe.
Croatia's Kupresak said Croatia must be treated as a subject of
stabilisation in the entire process, a role it confirmed
repeatedly.
It was announced Ranieri would visit Zagreb, most probably in
August. Italy reiterated its support to Croatia's inclusion into
the PHARE programme.
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