(E) Macedonia and Croatia agree to cooperate on EU accession
Macedonia and Croatia agree to cooperate on EU accession
06 September 2004
Croatia and Macedonia signed a cooperation accord Monday to help each other join the European Union as Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader visited Macedonia for meetings with top officials.
The signing ceremony followed talks between Sanader and Macedonian Prime Minister Hari Kostov.
"The region needs peace and development after a crisis of many years," Sanader said after the meeting, referring to the wars which tore the former Yugoslav federation apart in the 1990s.
He said the "project of a united Europe cannot be realised without the countries of southeastern Europe".
The EU recently granted Croatia official candidate status while Macedonia lodged its formal request to join the bloc earlier this year.
