Overview of important events in 2009 |
January
9 January – Zagreb Prime Minister Ivo Sanader met with Joseph Daul, Vice President of the European Parliament
12 January – Zagreb Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini paid an official visit to Croatia; in addition to meeting with Minister Gordan Jandroković, he met with the President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesić and Prime Minister Ivo Sanader
14 January – Zagreb The President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesić received Canadian Minister of Defence Peter MacKay
14 January – Zagreb Montenegrin Minister of Foreign Affairs Milan Roćen on an official visit to Croatia; following a meeting with Minister Gordan Jandroković, Minister Roćen met with Croatian President Stjepan Mesić and Prime Minister Ivo Sanader
19 January – Zagreb Minister Gordan Jandroković met with the Minister of Migration and European Affairs of the Republic of Finland Astrid Thors
20 January – Zagreb Prime Minister Ivo Sanader met with Fabrizio Barbaso, Deputy Director General – Directorate General for Energy and Transport, and Personal Envoy of the European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso who conveyed President Barroso’s message about the necessity of coordinating the energy
policies of Croatia and the EU
22 January – Zagreb Prime Minister Ivo Sanader met with Haris Silajdžić, member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina
22 January – Zagreb Prime Minister Ivo Sanader and the President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesić held talks with the European Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn
26 January – Zagreb Erwin Prőll, Governor of Lower Austria, was received by Prime Minister Ivo Sanader
30 January – Zagreb Minister Gordan Jandroković, Prime Minister Ivo Sanader and the President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesić met with the European Parliament Rapporteur on Croatia Hannes Swoboda
February
2 February – Zagreb, Split British Princess Anne, Princess Royal, visited Croatia as a special guest of the President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesić
3 February – Strasbourg Prime Minister Ivo Sanader participated in the meeting of the European People's Party at the European Parliament and on the sidelines held a separate meeting with European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso
4 February – Zagreb Dragan Čović, President of the Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina party, was received by the President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesić and Prime Minister Ivo Sanader
5 February – Rome Minister Gordan Jandroković attended the Ministerial Meeting on the UN Security Council reform; on the sidelines he held meetings with his Italian host, Minister Franco Frattini, Foreign Minister of Spain Miguel Angel Moratinos and Foreign Minister of Malta Tonio Borg
6 February – Munich Minister Gordan Jandroković attended the 45th Conference on Security Policy
10 February – Zagreb Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha on an official visit to Croatia; in addition to meeting with Prime Minister Ivo Sanader, the Albanian Prime Minister held meetings with the President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesić
13 February – Zagreb The President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesić received the EBRD President Thomas Mirow
13 February – Vienna Prime Minister Ivo Sanader met with Austrian Federal Chancellor Werner Faymann
16 February – Zagreb Foreign Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina Sven Alkalaj paid an official visit to Croatia; in addition
to meeting with Minister Gordan Jandroković, he met with Prime Minister Ivo Sanader, and was received by the President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesić
18 February – Ankara Prime Minister Ivo Sanader paid an official visit to Turkey at the invitation of his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. He was received by the Turkish President Abdullah Gül, and he also met the former President Süleyman Demirel
18 – 19 February – Paris Prime Minister Ivo Sanader met with French Prime Minister François Fillon, and delivered a speech at the joint session of the Foreign Relations Committee and the European Affairs Committee of the French National Assembly
23 February – Zagreb European Parliament delegation headed by Pal Schmidt visited the Croatian Parliament, and was received by the President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesić and Prime Minister Ivo Sanader
23 February – Paris Prime Minister Ivo Sanader was received by French President Nicolas Sarkozy
24 February – Mokrice Prime Minister Ivo Sanader met with his Slovenian counterpart Borut Pahor
26 February – Bihać The President of the Republic of Croatia
Stjepan Mesić met with a Member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina Željko Komšić
March
2 March – Zagreb The delegation of the Swedish Parliament's Committee on EU Affairs headed by Anna Maria Kinberg Batra paid a visit to Croatia; in addition to others, the Delegation was received by the President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesić and Prime Minister Ivo Sanader
2 March – Zagreb Albanian Parliament Speaker Josephina Topalli visiting the Croatian Parliament was received by the President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesić and Prime Minister Ivo Sanader in separate meetings; Minister Gordan Jandroković also received the delegation of the Parliament of the Republic of Albania
2 March – Zagreb Prime Minister Ivo Sanader received the delegation of the Irish Parliament’s Joint Committee on European Affairs, headed by its Chairman Bernard Durkan
5 March – Rome Prime Minister Ivo Sanader paid a working visit to Italy and met with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi; on the sidelines, Minister Gordan Jandroković held a separate meeting with his Italian counterpart Franco Frattini
6 March – Brussels Minister Gordan Jandroković attended a meeting of the North Atlantic Council
9 March – Lisbon Minister Gordan Jandroković paid an official visit to Portugal and met with Foreign Minister Luis Amado, and was also received by Portuguese Parliament Speaker Jaime Gama
9 March – Zagreb Prime Minister Ivo Sanader received the regional World Bank Vice-President Shigeo Katsu
10 March – Brussels Minister Gordan Jandroković met with his Slovenian counterpart Samuel Žbogar and European Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn with a view to finding a solution to unblock Croatia's accession negotiations
10 March – Zagreb Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin paid an official visit to Croatia, and in addition to meeting with the President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesić, met with Prime Minister Ivo Sanader
11 March – Zagreb Minister Gordan Jandroković received the Chairman of the Serbian Assembly’s Foreign Affairs Committee Dragoljub Mićunović
13 March – Zagreb Hungarian Foreign Minister Kinga Gönz paid a visit to Croatia, and, in addition to meeting with her host Minister Gordan Jandroković, met with Prime Minister Ivo
Sanader and the President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesić
16 March – Zagreb Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves paid an official return visit to the President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesić; the Estonian President also met with Ivo Sanader
16 March – Zagreb The President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesić received the delegation of the Autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan Region headed by the President of the Autonomous Region Abdullah Resool Ali Kosret
19 March – Brussels Prime Minister Ivo Sanader met with Slovenian Prime Minister Borut Pahor
20 March – Belgrade Prime Minister Ivo Sanader paid an official visit to the Republic of Serbia where he met with his Serbian counterpart Mirko Cvetković, and was also received by Serbian President Boris Tadić
24 March – Riga Minister Gordan Jandroković participated in the joint meeting of foreign and defence ministers within the framework of the Adriatic-Baltic-Atlantic initiative
24 March – Zagreb Prime Minister Ivo Sanader received Polish Parliament Speaker Bronisław Komorowski who was visiting the Croatian Parliament
25 March – Riga Minister Gordan Jandroković paid an official
visit to Latvia and met with Foreign Affairs Minister Măris Riekstins
25 March – Brussels Meeting on the unblocking of Croatia's accession process; attended by Minister Gordan Jandroković, Slovenian Foreign Minister Samuel Žbogar and European Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn
25 – 26 March – Zagreb The delegation of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, headed by its Vice-Chairman Assen Agov, attended the formal vote of the Croatian Parliament on the accession to the Alliance; following the event, they met with Prime Minister Ivo Sanader, and were received by the President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesić; President Mesić received the Chairman of the NATO Military Committee Admiral Giampaolo di Paola
27 March – Zagreb Minister Gordan Jandroković received the Director General for American and European Affairs at the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Retno L. P. Marsudi
27 March – Zagreb President Stjepan Mesić held talks with the President of the European Court of Human Rights Jean-Paul Costa
28 March – Hluboka nad Vltavou At the invitation of Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg, Minister Gordan Jandroković participated in an informal meeting of the foreign ministers of the EU members and candidates
31 March – Mostar Prime Minister Ivo Sanader met with the High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina Valentin Intzko
31 March – The Hague Minister Gordan Jandroković participated in the International Conference on Afghanistan where he met with NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer
April
3 – 4 April – Strasbourg/Kehl The Croatian delegation consisting of Stjepan Mesić, Ivo Sanader, Jadranka Kosor, Gordan Jandroković and Branko Vukelić attended the NATO Summit at which Croatia was welcomed as a new, full-fledged member of the Alliance
17 April – Zagreb Prime Minister Ivo Sanader received Bavarian Minister of the Interior Joachim Herrmann
20 April – Zagreb Austrian Minister of European and International Affairs Michael Spindelegger paid a visit to Croatia, and together with his host, Minister Gordan Jandroković, opened the exhibition Ars Croatiae at the Modern Gallery in Zagreb
21 April – Zagreb On his official visit to Croatia, Prince Albert II of Monaco met with the President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesić and Prime Minister Ivo Sanader
22 April – Zagreb Emir of Qatar Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani paid an official visit to Croatia and held talks with the President of the Republic Stjepan Mesić and Prime Minister Ivo Sanader22 April – Brussels A meeting of foreign ministers of Croatia and Slovenia, Gordan Jandroković and Samuel Žbogar, mediated by the European Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn
27 April – Sofia The President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesić participated in the South-East European Energy Summit; on the sidelines he met with Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov, Turkish President Abdullah Gül, Montenegrin President Filip Vujanović and Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina Nebojša Radmanović
27 April – Luxembourg Minister Gordan Jandroković headed the Croatian delegation to the 5th session of the EU-Croatia Stabilisation and Accession Council
27 April – Luxembourg Minister Gordan Jandroković met with his Hungarian counterpart Péter Balász
29 April – Warsaw Minister Gordan Jandroković attended the thematic conference on the economic and political opportunity of energy, organised by the Centre for European Studies
29 April – Zagreb The President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesić received the President of the Assembly of the Republic
of Kosovo Jakup Krasniqi
30 April – Warsaw Prime Minister Ivo Sanader attended a meeting of the European People's Party on the forthcoming election for the European Parliament
May
2 May – Munich Prime Minister Ivo Sanader met with Bavarian Prime Minister Horst Seehofer; in addition, he participated in the 35th Pan European Days in Passau where he talked about the Croatian European integration process
4 May – Sarajevo The President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesić met with Valentin Intzko, the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina
6 May – Istanbul The President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesić participated in the Euro-Asian Economic Forum; on the sidelines he met with Kosovo President Fatmir Sejdiu
7 May – Zagreb NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer paid a farewell visit to Croatia and was presented with the Grand Order of King Petar Kresimir IV with a Sash and a Morning Star by Prime Minister Ivo Sanader
8 May – Zagreb Valentin Intzko, the High Representative for
Bosnia and Herzegovina, met with Prime Minister Ivo Sanader
11 May – Zagreb Minister Gordan Jandroković met with Philippine Foreign Minister Alberto Gatmaitan Romulo
12 May – Skopje The President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesić attended the inauguration of the new Macedonian President Gjorge Ivanov
15 – 16 May – Dead SeAThe President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesić participated in the World Economic Forum in Jordan at the invitation of King Abdullah II; he also participated in the panel on the Mediterranean Union and in the G-11 Summit;
20 – 22 May – Zagreb Albanian President Bamir Topi, on an official visit to Croatia, in addition to meeting with his host the President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesić, met with Prime Minister Ivo Sanader
21 May – Zagreb The President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesić received Czech Senate President Přemysl Sobotka; Prime Minister Ivo Sanader and Minister Gordan Jandroković also met the Czech Parliament official
21 – 23 May – Erevan The President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesić paid an official visit to Armenia at the invitation of President Serzh Sargsyan
23 – 25 May – Dushanbe The President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesić paid an official visit to Tajikistan where his host was President Emomali Rahmon
June
1 – 5 June – New York Prime Minister Ivo Sanader visited the USA because of the Security Council discussion on the report of the International Criminal Tribune for the former Yugoslavia where he delivered a speech on 4 June. Prior to the session, he met with UN Secretary Ban Ki-moon, European Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn and US Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice. He also met with the President of the Tribunal Patrick Robinson and Chief Prosecutor Serge Brammertz. He also held separate meetings with foreign ministers of Turkey and of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ahmet Davutoğlu and Sven Alkalaj
4 June – Cetinje The President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesić attended the regional conference of the Heads of State of South Eastern Europe at the invitation of Montenegrin President Filip Vujanović; on the sidelines he met with Slovenian President Danilo Türk
4 – 5 June – Kišnjev Minister Gordan Jandroković participated in a meeting of the SEECP foreign ministers; on the occasion, Minister
Jandroković held a separate meeting with Macedonian Foreign Minister Antonij Milošoski
8 June – Zagreb Minister Gordan Jandroković received the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Morocco Taib Fassi Fihri; in addition, Prime Minister Ivo Sanader met with the Moroccan guest who was also received by the President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesić
12 June – Zagreb Prime Minister Ivo Sanader received the European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development Mariann Fischer Boel
12 June – Zagreb Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, together with a government delegation, paid an official visit to Croatia and talked with their host Ivo Sanader, and were also received by the President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesić; foreign ministers of Croatia and Slovakia, Gordan Jandroković and Miroslav Lajčak, held a separate meeting
15 June – Zagreb The delegation of the Committee on European Affairs of the House of Commons of the UK Parliament, headed by President Michael Connatry, paid a visit to the Croatian Parliament; they were received by the President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesić
15 June – Luxembourg Meeting of the Croatian and Slovenian
foreign ministers, Gordan Jandroković and Samuel Žbogar, mediated by the European Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn
16 June – Zagreb Minister of Foreign Affairs of the United Arab Emirates Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan paid an official visit to Croatia; due to Minister Jandroković's absence his host was State Secretary for Political Affairs Bianca Matković; the United Arab Emirates Minister was received by the President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesić
16 June – Vatican Minister Gordan Jandroković paid a visit to the Holy See and met with State Secretary Tarcisio Bertone and with the Secretary of the Holy See for Relations with States, Archbishop Dominique Mamberti; he also had an audience with Pope Benedict XVI
18 June – Brussels New meeting of Croatian and Slovenian foreign ministers, Gordan Jandroković and Samuel Žbogar, mediated by the European Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn
18 June – Brussels Prime Minister Ivo Sanader attended the meeting of leaders of the European People's Party
18 June – Novi Sad The President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesić attended the 16th Summit of Central and East European Heads of State; on the sidelines he met with Serbian President Boris Tadić and Italian President Giorgio Napolitano
19 – 20 June – Zagreb President of the People's Republic of China Hu Jintao paid an official visit to Croatia at the invitation of the President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesić; in addition to meeting with his host, the Chinese President met with Prime Minister Ivo Sanader and Croatian Parliament Speaker Luka Bebić, and participated in the opening of the Croatian – Chinese Economic Forum
20 June – Athens Prime Minister Ivo Sanader attended the opening of the new Acropolis Museum; on the sidelines he held separate meetings with Greek and Finnish prime ministers, Kostas Karamanlis and Matti Vanhanen; he discussed the continuation of negotiations between Croatia and the EU with the President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso; He discussed regional issues with Prime Minister of Serbia Mirko Cvetković and Prime Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina Nikola Špirić
22 June – Podgorica Prime Minister Ivo Sanader paid a visit to Montenegro where he talked with the Montenegrin Prime Minister Milo Đukanović and Parliament Speaker Ranko Krivokapić, and was also received by President Filip Vujanović
26 June – Zagreb The President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov paid a visit to Croatia at the invitation of the President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesić; he held a separate meeting with Prime Minister Ivo Sanader
27 June – Corfu Minister Gordan Jandroković participated in the ministerial meeting of the NATO-Russia Council and in the informal meeting of OSCE foreign ministers; on the sidelines he met with Foreign Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina Sven Alkalaj
29 June – Linz Minister Gordan Jandroković participated in the 19th Conference of the Working Community of Danube Regions and the Danube Forum 2009, the topic of which was “Sustainably Shaping the Future of the Danube Region”, where he presented the Inland Waterways Transport Development Strategy of the Republic of Croatia
July
1 July – Rome Minister Gordan Jandroković headed the Croatian delegation at the first meeting of the Coordinating Committee of the Ministers of the Republic of Croatia and the Republic of Italy; the Italian delegation was led by Foreign Minister Franco Frattini
7 July – Strasbourg The President of the Republic of CroatiaStjepan Mesić paid a visit to the Council of Europe and held a lecture at the Summer University for Democracy; he met with Secretary General of the Council of Europe Terry Davis, President of the European Court of Human Rights Jean-Paul Costa and Human Rights Commissioner Thomas Hammarberg
8 July – Herceg-Novi Minister Gordan Jandroković, along
with his counterparts from Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina, Milan Roćen and Sven Alkalaj, participated in the concluding meeting of the so-called Neum Initiative within the framework of support to cross-border co-operation of the local communities on the tri-border area: the Republic of Croatia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina
9 – 10 July – Dubrovnik The conference “Croatia Summit 2009” was hosted by Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor who, on the margins, met with Hungarian Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai; Minister Gordan Jandroković held a separate meeting with the Foreign Minister of Kosovo Skender Hyseni
13 July – Zagreb Macedonian President Gjorge Ivanov visited Croatia at the invitation of the President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesić
15 July – Sharm el-Sheik The President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesić attended the Non-Aligned Movement Summit
22 July – Munich The President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesić held a lecture on Croatia's path to the EU
27 July – Zagreb Eritrean Foreign Minister Osman Saleh Mohammed discussed with the State Secretary for Political Affairs Davor Božinović both bilateral relations and Eritrea’s position on the situation in Somalia
31 July – Trakošćan Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor met with her Slovenian counterpart Borut Pahor and agreed on a plan to resolve bilateral issues
August
24 August – Zagreb The President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesić received the UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres
30 August – Bled Minister Gordan Jandroković participated in the International Strategic Forum; the opportunity was used for a sideline meeting with Slovenian counterpart Samuel Žbogar on the continued resolution of bilateral issues
September
1 September – Gdanjsk Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor participated in marking the 70th anniversary of the beginning of World War II in Poland; on the sidelines she held separate meetings with Slovenian Prime Minister Borut Pahor, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and her Swedish counterpart Fredrik Reinfeldt
1 September – Zagreb Minister Gordan Jandroković met with the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State of the United States of America Stuart Jones
2 – 5 September – ZagrebFinnish President Tarja Halonen paid an official visit to Croatia at the invitation of the President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesić; she also met with Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor and Croatian Parliament Speaker Luka Bebić
4 – 5 September – Zagreb Emomali Rahmon, the President of Tajikistan, on an official return visit to Croatia
5 September – Stockholm Minister Gordan Jandroković participated in an informal meeting of Foreign Affairs Ministers of EU Member States and candidate countries
6 September – Zagreb The President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesić received Slovakian Parliament Speaker Pavol Paško who was paying a visit to the Croatian Parliament
7 – 8 September – Zagreb, Brijuni Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan on an official return visit to the President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesić
9 September – Zagreb Minister Gordan Jandroković received the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Hungary Péter Balász within the framework of preparations for the joint session of the governments of the two states
11 September – Ljubljana Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor reached an agreement with Slovenian counterpart Borut Pahor on
the unblocking of Croatia's accession negotiations
11 September – Stuttgart Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor attended the session of the German CDU party and on this occasion met with Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel and Bavarian President Günther Oettinger
12 September – Zagreb The President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesić received William Ernest Rummel, State Secretary of the Ministry of Defence of the United Kingdom
15 September – Zagreb Avigdor Lieberman, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the State of Israel paid a visit to Croatia; he met with Minister Gordan Jandroković, and was also received by the President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesić and Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor
17 September – Sarajevo Minister Gordan Jandroković met with Valentin Intzko, the High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina
17 September – Havana The President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesić paid an official visit to Cuba at the invitation of the Cuban President Raul Castro; he also met with the President of the National Assembly Rocardo De Quesada and participated in the Croatian – Cuban Economic Forum
17 September – Barcs 3rd Joint Session of the governments of Croatia and Hungary was held chaired by Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor and Hungarian Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai
21 – 26 September – New York The 64th Session of the UN General Assembly; the Croatian delegation was headed by the President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesić who, on the occasion, met the Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon; he also held talks with Albanian President Sali Berisha and President of Cyprus Demetris Christophias. In addition, President Mesić participated in the UN Summit on Climate Change. Minister Gordan Jandroković held a series of important bilateral meetings, and he participated in the meeting of ministers of the US – Adriatic Charter and in the Ministerial Meeting of the Alliance of Civilization Group of Friends.
28 September – Zagreb Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor met with the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia Serge Brammertz
October
2 October – Brussels Minister Gordan Jandroković headed the Croatian delegation at the Intergovernmental Conference on Croatia’s EU Accession; the EU delegation was headed by Swedish Foreign
Minister Carl Bildt in the capacity of the Swedish EU Presidency
2 October – Zagreb, Rijeka Qatar Minister for Religious Affairs Ahmed Abdulla al-Maria paid a visit to Croatia and together with the President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesić attended the commencement of construction of the mosque in Rijeka
5 October – Zagreb Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor received Georgy Poltavchenko, Plenipotentiary Envoy of the Russian Federation President in Central Federal District; the Russian guest was also received by the President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesić
5 October – Zagreb The President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesić received the delegation of the German Committee on Economic Relations with Eastern Europe headed by Chairman Klaus Mangold
6 October – Budapest Minister Gordan Jandroković participated in the informal meeting of foreign ministers of the Visegrad Group and countries of South Eastern Europe; on the sidelines he met with Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremić
6 October – Zagreb The President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesić received Montenegrin Parliament Speaker Ranko Krivokapić; in addition, he held separate meetings with Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor and Minister Gordan Jandroković
9 October – Zagreb The President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesić received Austrian Minister of Defence and Sports Norbert Darabos
9 October – Zagreb The President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesić received Macedonian Parliament Speaker Trajko Veljanoski; Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor also met with the Macedonian guest
12 October – Zagreb Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor held talks with the Italian Economic Development Deputy Minister Adolfo Urso
12 October – Zagreb The President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesić received French Senate President Gerard Larcher; the French guest held separate meetings with Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor and Minister Gordan Jandroković
13 October – Zagreb The President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesić received the first Deputy Speaker of the Russian Duma Lyubov Konstantinovna Sliska who was on a visit to the Croatian Parliament; she also met with Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor
15 October – Zagreb The Head of Croatia Unit of European Commission Enlargement Directorate General Dirk Lange paid a visit to Croatia and met with Minister Gordan Jandroković
15 October – Podgorica Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor paid a visit to Montenegro and met with Prime Minister Milo Đukanović; together with Serbian Prime Minister Mirko Cvetković they attended the ceremony marking the commencement of construction of the future Montenegrin highway
16 October – Zagreb Minister Gordan Jandroković received the Polish Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Andrzej Halicki
16 – 17 October – Zagreb At the invitation of the President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesić, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak paid an official visit to Croatia; the Foreign Ministers of the two states, Gordan Jandroković and Ahmed Abdul Gheit, held a separate meeting
19 – 22 October – Muscat Minister Gordan Jandroković paid an official visit to the Sultanate of Oman where he held a meeting with Foreign Minister Yusuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah
23 – 27 October – Zagreb, Split, Dubrovnik, Vukovar The Governor General of Canada Michaëlle Jean on an official visit to Croatia; she held separate meetings with the President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesić and Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor
25 – 26 October – Doha On his visit to Qatar, Minister Gordan Jandroković met with Prime Minister and foreign Minister Sheikh
Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabr al-Thani
26 October – Zagreb Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor met with Slovenian Prime Minister Borut Pahor
27 October – Abu Dhabi Minister Gordan Jandroković paid a visit to the United Arab Emirates and met with Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan
28 October – Zagreb Syrian President Bashara al-Assada on an official visit to Croatia; in addition to the President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesić, the Syrian President met with Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor and Croatian Parliament Speaker Luka Bebić
29 October – Brussels Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor participated in the European People's Party Summit held on the eve of the European Council session
November
2 November – Zagreb The European Parliament's Rapporteur on Croatia Hannes Swoboda met with Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor, and was also received by the President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesić
2 November – Zagreb The President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesić received Icelandic Parliament Speaker Asta
Johannesdottir, who was on a visit to the Croatian Parliament; Minister Gordan Jandroković also met with the Icelandic guest
3 November – Sarajevo Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor on a working visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina; she held talks with the Chairman of the Council of Ministers Nikola Špirić, and also met with Valentin Intzko, the High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina
3 November – Athens The President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesić paid a visit to Greece at the invitation of President Karolos Papoulias; in addition to the host, he met with Parliament Speaker Phillipos Petsalnikos and Prime Minister George Papandreu
4 November – Stockholm Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor and Slovenian Prime Minister Borut Pahor signed the agreement resolving the border issue before the Court of Arbitration; Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt attended the signing ceremony in the capacity of the Swedish EU Presidency
5 November – Budapest The President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesić attended the World Scientific Forum; on the sidelines he met with Hungarian President László Sólyom
5 November – Vienna Minister Gordan Jandroković participated in the session of the OSCE Permanent Council
10 November – Zagreb The President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesić received Bulgarian Parliament Speaker Cecka Cačeva who was on a visit to the Croatian Parliament
10 November – Skopje Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor paid an official visit to Macedonia where she met with Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski and Parliament Speaker Trajko Veljanoski, and was also received by President Gjorge Ivanov
11 November – New York Minister Gordan Jandroković participated in the UN Security Council thematic session Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict
12 November – Vatican President of the Republic Stjepan Mesić paid an official visit to the Holy See and held talks with the State Secretary Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone; he also had a private audience with Pope Benedict XVI
16 November – Zagreb The President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesić received Miodrag Vuković, Chairman of the Montenegrin Assembly's International Relations and European Integration Commission; the Montenegrin parliament member also met with Minister Gordan Jandroković
18 November – Zagreb Minister Gordan Jandroković met with the Minister of Integration of the Republic of Albania Majlinda Bregu
19 November – Sarajevo The President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesić attended the Sixth Regional Economic Forum of South Eastern Europe; on the sidelines he met with members of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Željko Komšić and Haris Silajdžić, as well as with Valentin Intzko, the High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina
20 November – Zagreb Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor held talks with EBRD President Thomas Mirow
21 November – Barcs The President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesić, together with his Hungarian counterpart László Sólyom, participated in the Croatian Day in Hungary
24 November – Berlin The President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesić visited Germany at the invitation of President Horst Köhler
December
1 December – Bratislava The President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesić visited Slovakia at the invitation of President Ivan Gašparovič; he also met with Parliament Speaker Pavol Paško
1 December – Athens Minister Gordan Jandroković participated in a meeting of the Ministerial Council of the OSCE
member states; on the margins he held bilateral meetings with his counterparts from Georgia and Kazakhstan, Grigol Vashadze and Kanat Saudabayev
3 December – Skopje The President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesić paid a visit to Macedonia at the invitation of President Gjorge Ivanov
3 – 4 December – Brussels Minister Gordan Jandroković participated in a meeting of NATO members’ foreign ministers
7 – 8 December – Ottawa Minister Gordan Jandroković paid an official visit to Canada at the invitation of the Canadian Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon
8 December – Zagreb Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor received the President of the Federal Council of Austria Erwin Preiner
9 – 10 December – Zagreb The President of Montenegro Filip Vujanović paid an official visit to Croatia
9 – 10 December – Washington Minister Gordan Jandroković paid an official visit to the USA and held talks with the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
13 – 14 December – Moscow The President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesić visited Russia at the invitation of the Russian
President Dmitry Medvedev; he also met with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin
14 – 15 December – Sarajevo Minister Gordan Jandroković participated in the Alliance of Civilizations conference; the following day he participated in a meeting of foreign ministers of the US-Adriatic Charter
16 December – Zagreb Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davotoğlu paid a visit to Croatia and, in addition to his host, Minister Gordan Jandroković, met with Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor and the President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesić
17 – 18 December – Copenhagen The President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesić headed the Croatian delegation to the plenary session of the UN Conference on Climate Change
20 – 22 December – Muscat The President of the Republic Stjepan Mesić paid a visit to the Sultanate of Oman at the invitation of Sultan Qaboos bin Said al-Said
21 December – Brussels Minister Gordan Jandroković headed the Croatian delegation at the Intergovernmental Conference on Croatia’s EU Accession; the EU delegation was headed by Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt