DUBROVNIK, Dec 2 (Hina) - During a three-day symposium on European integration processes for the 21st century, which commenced in Dubrovnik on Thursday morning, a round table on the Stability Pact for South-Eastern Europe was held on
Thursday evening. "The Stability Pact is a model, that is, a framework which offers solutions to problems of integration in Europe," said Croatia's Ambassador to the United States, Miomir Zuzul, who chaired the round table. According to the Croatian diplomat, a basic problem is that a great number of countries have emerged which view European integration processes with different levels of progress in accomplishing that goal and with different potentials of speedy integration. Since the idea about the expansion of NATO and Europe appeared, there has been an idea to do it gradually. I do not think and do not claim that the Stability Pact is just
DUBROVNIK, Dec 2 (Hina) - During a three-day symposium on European
integration processes for the 21st century, which commenced in
Dubrovnik on Thursday morning, a round table on the Stability Pact
for South-Eastern Europe was held on Thursday evening.
"The Stability Pact is a model, that is, a framework which offers
solutions to problems of integration in Europe," said Croatia's
Ambassador to the United States, Miomir Zuzul, who chaired the
round table.
According to the Croatian diplomat, a basic problem is that a great
number of countries have emerged which view European integration
processes with different levels of progress in accomplishing that
goal and with different potentials of speedy integration.
Since the idea about the expansion of NATO and Europe appeared,
there has been an idea to do it gradually. I do not think and do not
claim that the Stability Pact is just such model. I think that the
Stability Pact is a certain step on the path toward the full
integration into Europe, Ambassador Zuzul added.
Commenting on relations between the Stability Pact and Croatia,
Zuzul asserted it was a good project which can help Croatia achieve
some aims easier.
Objectively speaking, the Stability Pact is for the time being a
model rather than a concrete project, and how this model will be
implemented depends on those outside a circle of countries that are
member-states of the Pact as well as on activities of its member-
states, the Croatian diplomat said.
The symposium has been organised by the Zagreb-based Institute for
Social Sciences "Ivo Pilar" and the International Centre of
Croatian Universities in Dubrovnik.
The event has gathered about 50 scholars from Croatia and abroad.
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