Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration Gordan Jandrokovic met February 4th 2010 with Foreign Minister of the Republic of Finland Alexander Stubb, who was on an official visit to the Republic of Croatia.
Minister Jandrokovic described the Croatian-Finnish relations as very good and friendly, with no outstanding issues
Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration Gordan Jandrokovic met February 4th 2010 with Foreign Minister of the Republic of Finland Alexander Stubb, who was on an official visit to the Republic of Croatia.
Minister Jandrokovic described the Croatian-Finnish relations as very good and friendly, with no outstanding issues, adding that the significant development of the bilateral relations in the past two years had been augmented by the both sides' readiness to promote economic, cultural and scientific cooperation.
Minister Jandrokovic informed his Finnish counterpart about the course of Croatia's EU accession, adding that, conclusive with the last Intergovernmental Conference in December 2009, Croatia had opened a total of 28 negotiation chapters, 17 of which had been temporarily closed. Ministers Jandrokovic and Stubb expressed conviction that Croatia would successfully complete the technical part of the negotiations soon.
Minister Jandrokovic took the opportunity to thank the Republic of Finland for its full support for the EU enlargement in general and Croatia's accession in particular, as evident among other things in the 13 twinning projects.
Talking about the economic cooperation, which was described as expanding, the ministers singled out tourism, direct investment, shipbuilding, energy and science.
Mario Dragun
Spokesman
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