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  Presidents of Croatia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Croatia is a parliamentary democracy where the President's main role is leading the armed forces and diplomacy together with the Government, in addition to a number of procedural duties of this eminent public office.
President of the Presidency of SR Croatia Franjo Tuđman was declared President of the Republic of Croatia, according to the Amendments.
According to the Constitution, President of the Parliament Vlatko Pavletić was acting president.
www.sevenhills.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Presidents_of_Croatia   (771 words)

  
 Presidents of Croatia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The President of Croatia is the head of state.
The office of President of the Republic was declared after amending the Constitution of Socialist Republic of Croatia (then member of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia) in summer 1990.
President Tuđman dies at the end of 1999.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Presidents_of_Croatia   (731 words)

  
 myCroatia | History | Croatian turist travel information history
Croatia is located between East and West Europe and have been used during centuries as a transit country.
Croatia was recognised on 15 January 1992 as an independent state by the European community.
The president of the new republic of Croatia was Franjo Tudjman, leader of the governing Croatian nationalist party HDZ (Hrvatska Demokratska Zajednica, the Croatian democratic Union).
www.mycroatia.com /site/en/kastelen/geschiedenis.html   (630 words)

  
 Presidenti i Republikes se Shqiperise
Moisiu: President Bush, during the meeting that he had with the three of us, the Presidents of Albania, Croatia and Macedonia, emphasized that “the climate for integration of your three countries is favorable and it is going towards perfection.
President Bush, addressing to us, asked: “do you feel the climate, which is favorable and supportive to the fulfillment of your aspirations?” Before this encounter, had a specific meeting among the three presidents, where we discussed what we would do in the period between this Summit and the next one.
President, in the final declaration of the Istanbul Summit, it was emphasized that the acceptance in the NATO is done individually.
www.president.al /english/pub/info.asp?id=257   (649 words)

  
 Embassy of the U.S. London: Current Issues: NATO:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The initiative was proposed jointly by the presidents of Albania, Croatia and Macedonia to President Bush at the NATO Prague Summit in November 2002.
The Adriatic Charter, an initiative in the spirit of the 1998 U.S.-Baltic Charter, was proposed jointly by the Presidents of Albania, Croatia, and Macedonia to President Bush at the NATO Prague Summit in November 2002.
President Bush welcomed the Adriatic initiative as a strong contribution toward his vision of a Europe whole, free, and at peace.
www.usembassy.org.uk /nato185.html   (462 words)

  
 Croatia within ex-Yugoslavia
One of the founders of the nonalignment movement, together with presidents Nehru and Naser, was Josip Broz Tito (1892-1980), a Croat born near Zagreb, the president of former Yugoslavia.
Slobodan Milosevic, president of the new F.R. Yugoslavia, i.e.
Croatia being one of the six constituent republics of the ex Yugoslavia (until 1991), gave by far the greatest contribution to the overall wealth of the former state.
www.hr /darko/etf/et112.html   (8485 words)

  
 CIA - The World Factbook -- Field Listing - Background   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The government of former president MOBUTU Sese Seko was toppled by a rebellion led by Laurent KABILA in May 1997; his regime was subsequently challenged by a Rwanda- and Uganda-backed rebellion in August 1998.
President GBAGBO and rebel forces resumed implementation of the peace accord in December 2003 after a three-month stalemate, but issues that sparked the civil war, such as land reform and grounds for nationality remain unresolved.
Following the elections of a reformist president and Majlis in the late 1990s, attempts to foster political reform in response to popular dissatisfaction have floundered as conservative politicians have prevented reform measures from being enacted, increased repressive measures, and consolidated their control over the government.
www.phatnav.com /factbook/fields/2028.html   (16146 words)

  
 Croatia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Croatia became one of the most powerful kingdoms in the region, but in 1102 the Croatians ended a decade-long dynastic struggle by agreeing to submit themselves to HungaryHungarian authority.
The Presidents of CroatiaPresident of the Republic (''Predsjednik'') is head of state and elected for a five-year term.
In the north and east it is continental, Mediterranean along the coast and a semi-highland and highland climate in the south-central region.
www.infothis.com /find/Croatia   (1427 words)

  
 NewsHour Online: Bosnia Peace Plan
The accord was initialed by the presidents of Bosnia, Croatia, and Serbia, at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio.
PRESIDENT CLINTON: After nearly four years of 250,000 people killed, 2 million refugees, atrocities that have appalled people all over the world, the people of Bosnia finally have a chance to turn from the horror of war to the promise of peace.
ALIJA IZETBEGOVIC, President, Bosnia: Today is the historic day for Bosnia and for the rest of the world, for Bosnia because the war, we hope, will be replaced by peace, and for the rest of the world because the suffering of Bosnia and everything that followed.
www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/bosnia/november95/bosnia_11-21c.html   (1172 words)

  
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By Dragutin Hedl in Osijek (BCR No. 153, 4-July-00) The recent meeting between the presidents of Croatia and Montenegro is the culmination of a recent thaw in relations between two countries who fought a bitter war less than a decade ago.
But Vojislav Kostunica, president of the Democratic Party of Serbia said Djukanovic was merely trying to "wash his hands" of his past involvement.
In Croatia, the former ruling HDZ's stinging criticism of Mesic was perhaps predictable.
www.iwpr.net /archive/bcr/bcr_20000704_2_eng.txt   (653 words)

  
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A Pleasant Surprise Croatia's apparent generosity to Slavonia Serbs will displease right-wingers in the ruling party by By Drago Hedl in Osijek February 1997 The Croatian government has announced a surprisingly generous deal for Serbs in Eastern Slavonia once the region, formerly held by Serb rebels, is fully reintegrated into Croatia.
Croatia's sudden conciliatory stance-especially in giving Serbs in the UNTAES area the right to vote where they choose-is the result of strong external pressure, particularly from the US.
In Croatia, such initiatives tend to be interpreted as attempts to renew Yugoslavia, and the government uses them to scare the public into submissiveness.
www.iwpr.net /archive/war/war_48_199701-02_02.txt   (926 words)

  
 Croatia: history   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
By the end of the year, Croatia was one of the constituent republics of the new People’s Federated Republic of Yugoslavia.
The federal army of Yugoslavia, whose officers answered mainly to Serbia, intervened in Croatia and Slovenia alleging that separation was a threat to the integrity of Yugoslavia.
The signing of an agreement between the presidents of Croatia, Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina at Dayton airbase in the US marked the end of hostilities, although the population continued to attack UN and NATO forces throughout 1996.
gbgm-umc.org /country_profiles/country_history.cfm?Id=4   (2408 words)

  
 US State DEPT. DISPATCH, Volume 6, Number 45, November 6, 1995   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
President Clinton is convinced that the United States has the heart, the brains, and the muscle to exercise international leadership and to do so on behalf of our interests and our values.
President Clinton certainly sketched out at the beginning--in the small meeting--his vision of this relationship and the potential for it, but he also recognizes the differences.
President Jiang Zemin reciprocated--I will let the Chinese essentially speak for themselves--but it is clear that he underlined China's strong interest in a stable and healthy relationship with the United States as we head toward the next century.
dosfan.lib.uic.edu /ERC/briefing/dispatch/1995/html/Dispatchv6no45.html   (13145 words)

  
 Croatia on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Croatia is bounded by Slovenia in the northwest, by Hungary in the northeast, by Serbia and Montenegro in the east, by Bosnia and Herzegovina in the south and east, and by the Adriatic Sea in the west.
Croatia rising from ashes of war and ethnic cleansing.
CROATIA BY THE SEA Adriatic country relies on beauty of mountains and charm of villages to draw postwar tourists
www.encyclopedia.com /html/C/Croatia.asp   (546 words)

  
 Presidents of Croatia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The office of President of the Republic was declared after ammending the Constitution of Socialist Republic of Croatia (then member of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia) in summer 1990.
That happened immediatelly after first democratic multi-party elections, transforming the Presidency of SR Croatia.
President of the Presidency of SR Croatia Franjo Tudjman was declared President of the Republic of Croatia, according to the Ammendments.
www.1-free-software.com /en/wikipedia/p/pr/presidents_of_croatia.html   (671 words)

  
 Lists of office-holders - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Presidents of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Presidents of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
President of the Board of Trade (1696-1782; 1784-present)
encyclopedia.learnthis.info /l/li/lists_of_office_holders.html   (704 words)

  
 CEELI - Croatia - Update September 2002
The Presidents of the Supreme Courts of Poland and Hungary, Dr. Lech Gardocki and Mr.
President Stjepan Mesic has received a subpoena from the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague to testify in the trial involving Slobodan Milosevic.
The Presidents emphasized that judges who achieved extraordinary results in reducing the judiciary's backlog of cases should be rewarded.
www.abanet.org /ceeli/countries/croatia/sept2002.html   (1156 words)

  
 RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Prague, 10 September 2003 (RFE/RL) -- Stipe Mesic and Svetozar Marovic, the presidents of Croatia and Serbia-Montenegro, today offered a joint apology for what Marovic called "all the evils" committed by their countries during the bloody 1991-95 breakup of Yugoslavia, in which tens of thousands of people died.
Croatia is more advanced economically than Serbia and Montenegro and its prospects of joining the EU are better.
Croatia has been under increasing pressure to speed up the return of the refugees both from Belgrade and the international community.
www.rferl.org /nca/features/2003/09/10092003190407.asp   (849 words)

  
 Croatian nationalists offer olive branch to Serbs - Stormfront White Nationalist Community   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Croatia was ruled by the HDZ during the war, when Belgrade-backed ethnic Serbs took arms against the government's declaration of independence from Yugoslavia.
In September the presidents of Croatia and Serbia-Montenegro apologized for "all the evils" committed by both sides during the war.
Sanader said Croatia's possible accession to the European Union, one of the centrepieces of his election campaign, would be also in the interest of Serbia.
www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?t=99857   (1171 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Europe | Presidents apologise over Croatian war
The presidents of Serbia-Montenegro and Croatia have apologised for the actions of their citizens in the 1991-95 war between the two countries.
The surprise remarks came during the Croatian president's first visit to Belgrade since the conflict, which followed his country's declaration of independence from Yugoslavia.
Twelve years ago, he was based in the city as the Croatian member of Yugoslavia's rotating presidency - effectively the country's last president before the multi-ethnic state collapsed.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/europe/3095774.stm   (433 words)

  
 Presidents Of Croatia, Serbia-Montenegro Apologize For Wartime 'Evils'
Belgrade, 10 September 2003 (RFE/RL) -- The presidents of Croatia (pictured) and Serbia-Montenegro jointly apologized today for what they called "all the evils" committed by their countries during the 1991-1995 war.
The apologies came as Croatian President Stipe Mesic arrived in Belgrade, marking the first visit by a Croatian head of state to Belgrade since the country proclaimed independence from Yugoslavia in 1991.
Mesic met with Svetozar Marovic, the president of Serbia and Montenegro.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/news/2003/09/mil-030910-rferl-131546.htm   (281 words)

  
 Croatian_Parliament   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The parliament of Croatia is called Hrvatski Sabor in Croatian - the word sabor means an assembly, a gathering, a congress.
Laws which elaborate the constitutionally defined human rights and fundamental freedoms, the electoral system, the organization, authority and operation of government bodies and the organization and authority of local and regional self-government are passed by the Croatian Parliament by a majority vote of all representatives.
After Croatia joined the Hungarian state in 1102, these nobles formed a real parliament and their decisions had significant influence in the state politics.
www.apawn.com /search.php?title=Croatian_Parliament   (854 words)

  
 News in English   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Croatian President Stjepan Mesiæ and his Yugoslav counterpart Vojislav Ko¹tunica met in Sarajevo Monday afternoon, on the margins of a trilateral summit of the Croatian, Yugoslav and Bosnian leaders.
The two presidents agreed it was necessary for the refugees, regardless of their current place of residence, to attend the fall elections in Bosnia.
According to Mesiæ, the Yugoslav president expressed interest in "some trials in Croatia", alluding to the trials of Croatian citizens of Serb nationality, who are being tried in absentia.
www.hrt.hr /vijesti/arhiv/2002/07/16/ENG.html   (1145 words)

  
 Adriatic Charter
Albania, Croatia, and Macedonia jointly drafted the Charter.
Underlines Albania's, Croatia's, and Macedonia's dedication to strengthening their individual and cooperative efforts to intensify and hasten domestic reforms which enhance the security, prosperity and stability of the region.
Notes the tremendous accomplishments already achieved by Albania, Croatia, and Macedonia on the path of Euro-Atlantic integration, outlines areas of continuing focus, and reiterates the intention of the United States to continue assisting the countries in implementing necessary reforms.
www.state.gov /r/pa/prs/ps/2003/20153.htm   (397 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
As Croatia's participation in the Stability Pact has shown, it is ready to play a constructive role in international efforts to bring stability to the region.
Croatia's active support for arms-control and demining projects within the Stability Pact is particularly commendable, and deserves international support." (ICG 26 April 2001, p.
Croatia was granted admission to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's Partnership for Peace on May 25 and to the World Trade Organization on July 18, and its U.S. $55 million refugee return proposal was fully funded through the Stability Pact in March [2000]." (HRW December 2000, p.
www.idpproject.org /Sites/idpSurvey.nsf/wViewCountries/EEB4B0304BC61175C1256A7D002564A9?OpenDocument   (823 words)

  
 CEELI - Croatia Update - November 2002
Prague, November 2002 (Balkan Times) The Presidents of Croatia, Albania and Macedonia met with the President of the United States, George W. Bush, at the NATO summit in Prague.
Croatia's Ambassador to the United States, Ivan Grdesic, disclosed that Bush supported the aspirations of the three countries to enter the alliance during the next wave of enlargement.
The peninsula, situated on the Croatian-Montenegrin border, was occupied by the Yugoslav Army in 1992.
www.abanet.org /ceeli/countries/croatia/nov2002.html   (1241 words)

  
 [15 Jul 1996] SC/6245 : SECURITY COUNCIL AUTHORIZES MISSION OF OBSERVERS TO CONTINUE MONITORING DEMILITARIZATION OF ...
Determining that the situation in Croatia is a threat to international peace and security, the Security Council this morning authorized the United Nations Mission of Observers in Prevlaka (UNMOP) to continue monitoring the demilitarization of the Prevlaka peninsula until 15 January 1997.
The Council also requested the Secretary-General to report by 5 January on the situation in the peninsula and on the progress made by Croatia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) towards resolving their differences peacefully.
Authorizes the United Nations military observers to continue monitoring the demilitarization of the Prevlaka peninsula, in accordance with resolutions 779 (1992) and 981 (1995) and paragraphs 19 and 20 of the report of the Secretary-General of 13 December 1995 (S/1995/1028*) until 15 January 1997; "2.
www.un.org /News/Press/docs/1996/19960715.sc6245.html   (1098 words)

  
 Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Washington, D.C.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Zakopane, Jan. 19: The presidents of Croatia and Poland Stipe Mesic and Aleksander Kwasniewski discussed relations between their countries and international affairs during an informal meeting in the Polish mountain resort Zakopane.
According to the president, the whole Rywin affair proves that the contacts between politicians, journalists and businessmen should be more cautious and restrained.
President Aleksander Kwasniewski presenting the ministerial appointment to Balicki said that the Health Ministry is without doubt one of the most difficult ministries.
www.polandembassy.org /News/Biuletyny_news/p2003-01-19.htm   (1230 words)

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