Croatian Foreign and European Affairs Minister Vesna Pusic said in Zagreb on Friday, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Croatia's admission to the United Nations, that from that crucial period to the present Croatia had made enormous progress.
"We have a lot of room to make more progress, but there is no doubt that we made enormous progress," Pusic told a news conference held in the foreign ministry.
She added that membership of the U.N. had consolidated Croatia's international recognition and launched the building of the state which today is about to enter the European Union and which has built institutions it could have only dream of 20 years ago.
Marking the 20th anniversary of admission to the UN will start on 22 May with a ceremony at Zagreb's central Zrinjevac Park. The central ceremony will be held on 29 May in the national parliament.
According to Pusic, alongside top Croatian officials, the ceremony in parliament will also be attended by former Polish Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki, former Hungarian Foreign Minister Geza Jeszenski, former French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas, former Slovenian President Milan Kucan, former Vatican undersecretary for relations with states Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, and former UN administrator in eastern Slavonia Jacques Klein.
Croatia was admitted to the UN on 22 May 1992, by the acclamation of the General Assembly and after previously being recognised by a number of countries, including all countries of the then EU, Russia and the United States.
