Minister Grabar-Kitarović and Minister Rončević headed Croatian delegation at meeting entitled “Adriatic-Baltic-Atlantic”

The ministers and participants exchanged opinions and experiences in the advanced stages of acceding to full NATO membership in light of the forthcoming NATO summit, to be held in April 2008 in Bucharest. The meeting also reviewed the situation in the region and exchanged opinions about the future co-operation of the US-Adriatic Charter countries in NATO accession.

The meeting also discussed topics concerning international co-operation in security matters and commended the recently-ended Noble Midas military exercise, describing it as having been conducted in accordance with the highest standards. The meeting’s participants also reviewed the security situation in the region, with an emphasis on the solution of the Kosovo status as an issue of extreme importance for the further development of stability.

The meeting represents a continuation of the successfully established dialogue and opinion-exchange framework between the US-Adriatic Charter countries – Albania, Croatia, Macedonia and the US, and the three Baltic countries – Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia, that began on Croatia’s initiative in April 2007 on Brijuni, and continued in Tallinn early-2007.

Participating in the Split meeting as monitors were also the representatives of the Partnership for Peace countries – Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, and Serbia.