CROATIA: Slovak Prime Minister Iveta Radicova says that Slovakia and Croatia will soon sign an agreement on the use of a liquified natural gas storage in Croatia

Record ID: 862953

  • Title: CROATIA: Slovak Prime Minister Iveta Radicova says that Slovakia and Croatia will soon sign an agreement on the use of a liquified natural gas storage in Croatia
  • Date: 27th September 2011
  • Summary: ZAGREB, CROATIA ( SEPTEMBER 26, 2011) (REUTERS) ( ** BEWARE FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY **) SLOVAK PRIME MINISTER IVETA RADICOVA GETTING OUT OF CAR, SHAKING HANDS WITH CROATIAN PRIME MINISTER JADRANKA KOSOR GUARD OF HONOUR RADICOVA AND KOSOR INSPECTING GUARD OF HONOUR RADICOVA AND KOSOR POSING FOR MEDIA, SHAKING HANDS
  • Embargoed: 12th October 2011 13:00
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  • Location: Croatia
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  • Country: Croatia
  • Topics: International Relations,Energy
  • Reuters ID: LVABG5DW81JRNRV8K0M3YO2CGIBA
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  • Story Text: Slovakia and Croatia will soon sign an agreement on the use of a liquified natural gas storage in Croatia that should boost the energy security of both countries, Slovak Prime Minister Iveta Radicova said during a visit to Croatia on Monday (September 26).
    "We hope we will in a few days be able to say that we have signed an agreement on usage of the liquified natural gas storage in Croatia and therefore in concrete terms achieve more energy security both in Slovakia and Croatia," Radicova said after talks with her Croatian counterpart, Jadranka Kosor in Zagreb.
    "I also welcome efforts that are being made to connect the north and south energy corridors. Slovakia has already signed agreements on that matter with Poland and Hungary and we plan to sign such an agreement with Croatia as well. We do no want to ever again be in a position that we have our gas supply cut off from the East, from Ukraine," Radicova said.
    Ukraine is the main transit route for Europe-bound Russian gas, although Russia is trying to diversify exports and has launched the new Nord Stream pipeline bypassing Ukraine. A bitter price row between Kiev and Moscow in early 2009 halted Gazprom's European supplies for weeks.
    The two prime ministers also discussed ways to improve tourism cooperation as Croatia is a very popular summer destination for Slovak tourists, while few Croats take skiing holidays in Slovakia.
    "Slovak tourists are our very important and dear guests. In the first seven months of this year there was a 10 percent increase in the number of Slovaks who visited Croatia. I believe these numbers will be equally high if not higher when we get the data for the 8, 9 and 10-month period. We discussed the ways to bring even more Slovak tourists to Croatia next year and also the possibilities for Croatian tourists in Slovakia, and hope there will be an increased number of Croatian tourists spending holidays in Slovakia this winter", Kosor told the joint news conference.
    Later on Monday Radicova is expected to meet Croatian parliament speaker Luka Bebic and representatives of the Slovak minority.
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