BUDAPEST, 18 Jan (Hina) - The U.N. Transitional Administrator for eastern Slavonia, General Jacques Klein, who is on a visit to Budapest, on Saturday visited the Croatian embassy where he held talks with Croatia's ambassador to
Hungary, Zdenko Skrabalo. The two officials discussed the completion of peaceful reintegration of the Croatian Danubian area. They also established that they were in agreement as regards their views about the implementation of elections, scheduled to take place on 16 March.
BUDAPEST, 18 Jan (Hina) - The U.N. Transitional Administrator for
eastern Slavonia, General Jacques Klein, who is on a visit to
Budapest, on Saturday visited the Croatian embassy where he held
talks with Croatia's ambassador to Hungary, Zdenko Skrabalo.
The two officials discussed the completion of peaceful
reintegration of the Croatian Danubian area. They also established
that they were in agreement as regards their views about the
implementation of elections, scheduled to take place on 16 March.
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Klein and Skrabalo also discussed the re-establishment of all
communications between the Croatian Danubian area and Hungary as
well as measures the U.N. Transitional Administration in the area
was taking following a recent incident in Ilok.
The reception in the Croatian embassy in Budapest was also
attended by the assistant secretary of state in the Hungarian
Foreign Ministry, in charge of south-eastern Europe, Gabor Bagi,
the apostolic nuncio in Hungary, Angelo Acerbi, Hungarian
ambassador in charge of European integration processes, Georg
Habsburg, Slovenia's ambassador to Hungary, Ferenc Hajdos, and
charge d'affaires in the Bosnian embassy in Budapest, Tomislav
Vajnberger.
The talks between the high officials also tackled state
policies of Croatia, Hungary and Slovenia towards a group of
countries consisting of Slovenia, Italy and Hungary, which will
probably be joined soon by Croatia and Austria. The high officials
also discussed cooperation between Croatian and Hungarian border
authorities in implementing the process of peaceful reintegration
of the Croatian Danubian area.
Hungarian ambassador Gabor Bagi reiterated Hungary's support
for the Croatian Government Letter of Intent to the United Nations
on the completion of peaceful reintegration of the Croatian
Danubian area.
Hungary wanted Croatia to have peaceful and successful
development, to continue normalising its relations with Yugoslavia
and help solve the crisis in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bagi said.
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