Minister Grabar-Kitarović received Indonesian Minister of Foreign Affairs Noer Hassan Wirajuda

Both of them acknowledged very good bilateral relations with a trend of strengthening and intensifying mutual cooperation and agreed that past official visits on the highest levels serve as a proof of this. The ministers also discussed cooperation in multilateral terms and exchanged positions on the state of affairs in religions. Minister Grabar-Kitarović informed Minister Wirajuda about the details in the process of accession of Croatia to full membership in the EU and NATO. Minister Wirajuda informed Minister Grabar-Kitarović on the participation and the role of Indonesia in ASEAN (The Association of Southeast Asian Nations), a regional association of ten states whose objective is to create a region of peace and cooperation, economic integration and prosperity, and common regional identity.

In terms of economic cooperation, both ministers expressed desire to increase the cooperation to the level of political relations. In the part related to the economy the ministers concluded that last year the countries traded around $ 45 million worth of goods and services. They also discussed the use of sea ports, particularly Rijeka port, as an entry point into European market and also the presence of Croatian companies on the Indonesian market.

The fact that the two countries signed around ten bilateral international agreements, out of which the Agreement for the avoidance of double taxation with respect to taxes on income and the Agreement on the promotion and protection of investments were highlighted, is mutually considered as important. The two ministers also deemed important the protocol on cooperation in the field of culture and the memorandum on the cooperation between the ministries of foreign affairs of the two countries. This protocol is expected to serve as a frame for exchanging experience through diplomatic academies.