Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration Gordan Jandrokovic of Croatia

Croatia, which will take over the UN Security Council presidency in December 2008, will do its best to help overcome its political problem and find an acceptable Cyprus solution for the people who live on the island, Croatian Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration Gordan Jandrokovic has said, adding however that “we are not in a position to press Turkey.

Jandrokovic said they had a very friendly and a very open discussion about all issues and noted that they share very similar views on almost all important issues.

At the Conference of the Adriatic-Ionian Initiative, Croatian Minister of Foreign Affairs Gordan Jandrokovic discussed the improvement of the situation in the Adriatic-Ionian region with ministers from the region.

After the drill, Jandrokovic said he was pleased with.

Holding a press conference after the meeting, Jandrokovic said bilateral relations as well as regional and international issues were disucced during the talks.

Upon a question on EU membership process, Jandrokovic said each country`s route to EU, conditions and interests were different.

Jandrokovic said he expects the negotiations to be completed by the end of next year at the latest and that Prague will lend dynamics to the Croatian-EU negotiations.

Croatia highly appreciates your decision to accept US in this important forum which heralds advanced cooperation in the Mediterranean, where my country belongs, Jandrokovic said in his address.

This is a very significant step for Croatia," Croatia's foreign minister Gordan Jandrokovic said after the talks.

BELGRADE, March 29 (Xinhua) -- Croatian Foreign Minister Gordan Jandrokovic said on Saturday that his country is willing to assist fellow Western Balkan countries on their path to EU membership by offering them its experience and advice.

Croatia seeks equal rights for Croats in BiH07/05/2008ZAGREB, Croatia -- Foreign Minister Gordan Jandrokovic says Croatia wants Bosnian Croats to have the same constitutional rights as the other two nationalities in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

With Stratfor map)Croatian Foreign Minister Gordan Jandrokovic said Dec 22 that Slovenia is purposefully derailing Croatias membership negotiations with the European Union.

In discussions with EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn, Jandrokovic said that he 'especially emphasised Croatia's readiness to do whatever it takes to meet the criteria for full membership and to become a member of the EU in 2010.

Croatian Foreign Minister Gordan Jandrokovic said on Saturday that his country is willing to assist fellow Western Balkan countries on their path to EU membership by offering them its experience and advice.

Jandrokovic said that only the prospect of EU membership would lead to the lasting stabilization of the region, which had been plagued by war, ethnic conflicts and turmoil during the 1990s.

Jandrokovic said that Croatia was not in the focus of the meeting, except in a part where Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn stressed the positive role of Croatia in stabilizing the region and reiterated that after the resolution of the problem of the Croatian fishing zone in the Adriatic it was possible that Croatia would complete its EU accession negotiations by the autumn of 2009.

Asked about the pace of necessary reforms and a delay in the process of adjustment of Croatian laws to those of the EU, Jandrokovic said that Croatia was ready to do all that was necessary to meet the set deadlines, aware that it was a huge job, because 120 laws and 350 regulations needed to be adopted.

Jandrokovic said Croatia is willing to promote mutual cooperation especially in regard to the integration process of the country.

Berlin - Croatia will undertake the reforms required by the European Union so that it can become the bloc's 28th member in 2010, Croatian Foreign Minister Gordan Jandrokovic said Thursday.

We will do everything that is required of US," Jandrokovic said after holding talks in Berlin with German Foreign Minister Frank- Walter Steinmeier.

Steinmeier and Jandrokovic expressed the hope that pro-European fores would prevail over Serb nationalists in the vote.

make progress on reforms to meet European Union entry standards.

with improvements in its judiciary and fight corruption.

Croatian Foreign Minister Gordan Jandrokovic met with his Turkish counterpart, Ali Babacan, in Ankara on Friday (May 23rd.

ethnic conflicts and turmoil during the 1990s.

For his part, Jandrokovic said that his country expected Turkey to complete its EU accession process successfully.

Crotian Foreign Minister Jandrokovic was optimistic about the membership negotiations with the EU, which would decide at the end of this year whether Croatia could be the 28th member country of EU in 2011.

According to sources who attended the session, Jandrokovic approached Jeremic after the speech and asked him: "How can you say in Zagreb that there was ethnic cleansing of Serbs," to which Jeremic replied that this was "Belgrade's stand.

Belgrade's wish to open a consular office in Knin was also disputable, because Jandrokovic said that for reasons of reciprocity Serbia could not have two consular offices in Croatia, while Croatia had just one - the office in Subotica.

ZAGREB, May 27 (Tanjug) - Croatian Foreign Minister Gordan Jandrokovic has said that at Tuesday's 10th session of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the eight countries making up the Adriatic - Ionian Initiative (AII), held in Zagreb and at which Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic also took part, there was no mention of the expansion of AII to include Kosovo.

After the end of the plenary session, Jandrokovic said that the AII members - Croatia, Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro, Greece, Italy, Slovenia and Serbia - would continue insisting on a political dialogue and would resume their mutual support on the path towards joining euro-atlantic integrations.

Jandrokovic said that during Croatia's year-long AII presidency, this country has focused on the revision of cooperation achieved so far, proposing concrete cooperation in the sphere of the economy and enterpreneurship, tourism, energy, transport and the protection of the environment.

Croatia and Slovenia could soon resolve several issues including a long-running border dispute that have strained bilateral ties, Croatian Foreign Minister Gordan Jandrokovic said Tuesday.

Right now we are close to finding a solution that would be acceptable for both (countries)," Jandrokovic was quoted as saying by the state-run HINA news agency.