ZAGREB, November 30, 2018 – The Croatian-Russian intergovernmental commission on economic and scientific-technical cooperation met in Zagreb on Friday, concluding that energy, agriculture, tourism, science and education are areas with cooperation development potential. The talks focused on the Croatian-Russian cooperation in energy, agriculture and tourism, and long term cooperation in science and technology transfer, Croatian Economy Minister Darko Horvat said after the commission’s eighth meeting.
The two parties also signed two protocols which he said contained certain commitments and concluded that certain progress had been made in the development of the good bilateral relations between Croatia and Russia.
Russian Agriculture Minister Dmitry Patrushev said agriculture, energy, tourism, science and education remained the basic directions of cooperation.
I hope we will continue our work in 2019 at a joint session in Moscow, he said, adding that the next stage in the development of bilateral relations would ensue after that.
He gave a positive assessment of the intergovernmental commission’s work, saying he hoped trade between the two countries would continue to grow.
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