President Bush to Welcome Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader

President Bush to Welcome Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader

Congressman Radanovich speaks to Croatian Prime Minister, Dr. Ivo Sanader and Croatian Ambassador, Neven Jurica, while the Croatian Minister of Culture, Bozo Biskupic looks on. (July 2005) Croatian Caucus, house.gov

President Bush will welcome Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader to the White House on October 17, 2006. This meeting will provide an opportunity for the President and the Prime Minister to further strengthen the partnership between the United States and Croatia. The President looks forward to discussing cooperation in the War on Terror and stability in Southeast Europe with Prime Minister Sanader, as well as U.S. support for Croatia's NATO and European Union aspirations.

# # # For Immediate Release, Office of the Press Secretary, September 28, 2006

The lands that today comprise Croatia were part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire until the close of World War I. In 1918, the Croats, Serbs, and Slovenes formed a kingdom known after 1929 as Yugoslavia.

Following World War II, Yugoslavia became a federal independent Communist state under the strong hand of Marshal TITO. Although Croatia declared its independence from Yugoslavia in 1991, it took four years of sporadic, but often bitter, fighting before occupying Serb armies were mostly cleared from Croatian lands. Under UN supervision, the last Serb-held enclave in eastern Slavonia was returned to Croatia in 1998 CIA FACTBOOK

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