- Published: 10.07.2015.
CF2015: Victoria Nuland – we expect the region to show the way
The United States is grateful for a strong alliance with Croatia, an exporter of regional security and wishes to help in the implementation of projects
The United States is grateful for a strong alliance with Croatia, an exporter of regional security and wishes to help in the implementation of projects that could turn Southeast Europe into an energy powerhouse for all of Central Europe, US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland said in her address at the Croatia Forum.
We are cooperating with the EU commissioners for energy and climate to help implement projects that might turn this region into a true energy powerhouse for all of Central Europe. That includes investing in an LNG terminal on the island of Krk, an interconnection towards Hungary, Bulgaria and Serbia, and further hydrocarbon explorations in the Adriatic, she said.
Speaking of the progress made by the Southeast European countries, Nuland said that Croatia had evolved from an importer into an exporter of regional security and that the US was grateful for their alliance.
Announcing her visit to Srebrenica on Saturday to attend a ceremony commemorating the 20th anniversary of the massacre of Bosniaks, Nuland said that we owe it to those who lost their lives that something like that never happens again. We must build a peaceful and progressive Balkans, she added.
Nuland called on the countries in the region to make extra effort to implement democratic reforms, adding that the US would help them along the way.