Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader on Wednesday afternoon wrapped up his official day-long visit to Turkey by holding separate talks with incumbent and former Turkish presidents Abdullah Guel and Suleiman Demirel.
Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader on Wednesday afternoon wrapped up his official day-long visit to Turkey by holding separate talks with incumbent and former Turkish presidents Abdullah Guel and Suleiman Demirel.
During Sanader's visit to Ankara, the Croatian and the Turkish government signed a number of documents on cooperation, including an agreement on economic cooperation, an additional protocol amending the agreement on investment promotion and protection, and a memorandum on energy cooperation, a strategy to strengthen bilateral relations, a memorandum of understanding in energy cooperation, and an agreement on environmental protection.
Sanader and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan underlined good bilateral relations, adding that the two countries shared a goal to enter European associations.
Croatian PM supported Turkey's efforts to continue its EU entry talks. He also thanked Turkey on supporting Croatia's NATO admission.
The two prime ministers said that economic cooperation between Turkey and Croatia was not so good as political cooperation, noting that trade between the two countries was a mere USD 500 million.
Sanader said that there were a number of areas for the further promotion of trade and that the matter would be discussed at a business forum in Istanbul on Thursday.
He said that Croatia would like to see more tourists from Turkey and that Croatian seaports were interested in providing services to Turkish partners.
After Ankara, Prime Minister Sanader leaves for Paris to meet for talks with French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Thursday.
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