Josipovic is also expected to visit Croatian emigrants in the U.S. and their organisations and attend the Atlantic Council Annual Awards Dinner in Washington. The Croatian president will also give a talk reconciliation and prosecution of war crimes at two well-know U.S. institutions.

After arriving in Chicago on Saturday evening, Josipovic will begin his programme by visiting the Croatian Ethnic Institute, founded by the Croatian Franciscans in 1975 and incorporated as an educational and scientific corporation in 1977. The institute is a central data base on Croats and their descendants in the United States, Canada, and other countries to which Croats have immigrated. It also collects and preserves books, periodicals and magazines, manuscripts and artifacts relating to the heritage of some 2.5 million people of Croatian descent in North America. The institute develops, produces, and promotes materials useful for the study of the Croatian language and heritage and encourages and conducts research on the sociological, demographic, religious, and political aspects of Croatian and other migrations and their impact on the way of life in the countries to which they have migrated.

In the afternoon, Josipovic will meet representatives of the Croat community in the Croatian General Consulate in Chicago. There are approximately 50,000 Croats living in the wider Chicago area. The Consulate in Chicago covers nine federal states with 250,000 Croatian emigrants.

On Monday, the Croatian President is scheduled to deliver remarks on reconciliation and criminal responsibility for war crimes at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs Presenting the Croatian president, the Council described Josipovic as a legal expert who tool part in the UN PrepCom for the establishment of the International Criminal Court as well as at the Rome Diplomatic Conference. The Council said he also was an associate-expert of the Council of Europe for monitoring prison systems in a number of countries and drafted or codrafted a number of Croatian legislative bills. The Council also said that Josipovic represented Croatia before the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, adding that he participated in a number of international projects, and as an expert of the Council of Europe participated in the evaluation of prisons in Ukraine, Mongolia and Azerbaijan.

During his stay in Chicago, Josipovic is expected to meet a group of law student from Croatia studying at DePaul University and lay a wreath at the city's Holocaust museum.

On Tuesday, Josipovic will travel to Washington and meet Biden and Clinton. The talks are expected to focus on Croatia's EU entry process, the stabilisation of Southeast Europe, multilateral cooperation, etc.

Josipovic's programme also includes talks with other senior officials.

On Tuesday evening he will attend the Atlantic Council Annual Awards Dinner in Washington, which will launch the Council’s 50th anniversary celebrations. The Atlantic Council Distinguished Military Leadership Award will be presented to Admiral James G. Stavridis, USN, Supreme Allied Commander Europe for the role he has played in service to our nation and his commitment to the security and promotion of the transatlantic alliance. The Distinguished Business Leadership Award will be presented to Chairman of the Board and CEO of Coca-Cola Muhtar Kent for the role he has played at one of the world’s most respected global and philanthropic companies and throughout a career that included crucial jobs during the transition to free markets in the former Soviet bloc.

Biden will be the main speaker at the event.

On the last day of his visit to the US, Josipvic will give a talk at the German Marshall Fund on reconciliation and criminal responsibility for war crimes and lay wrats at the Arlington National Cemetery.