ZAGREB, Jan 16 (Hina) - After meeting with Croatian Defence Minister Damir Krstičević in Zagreb on Tuesday, Ukraine Defence Minister Stepan Poltorak said that he supported the respect of all contractual obligations and that when he returns home he would discuss Croatia's dissatisfaction with Ukraine's overhaul of Croatia's MiG fighter jets.

ZAGREB, Jan 16 (Hina) - The European Commission (EC) doesn't have any outstanding legal issues regarding the construction of the Pelješac Bridge, the EC said on Tuesday after Croatian MP Ivan Lovrinović claimed that the EC had made the financing of that project conditional on Croatia's resolving its border issues with Bosnia and Herzegovina.

ZAGREB, Jan 16 (Hina) - Maritime Affairs, Transport and Infrastructure Minister Oleg Butković said on Tuesday the European Commission had set no conditions for the construction of the Pelješac bridge and that there were no obstacles to its construction.

ZAGREB, Jan 16 (Hina) - The first results of the experimental stage of the curriculum reform, which the Science and Education Ministry launched a few months ago, will be visible in a year or two, but signs from the field show that teachers are ready and I believe that we will make it, Minister Blaženka Divjak said in a live interview on her Facebook wall.

ZAGREB, Jan 16 (Hina) - The Croatian waste management system has experienced changes in recent years, and over the last seven months the government has set the course it will follow, Environment and Energy Minister Tomislav Ćorić said on Tuesday.

ZAGREB, Jan 15 (Hina) - Božo Ljubić, the chairman of the Main Council of the Croat National Assembly (HNS), the umbrella organisation of Croat political parties in Bosnia and Herzegovina, said on Monday he expected Croatia's President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović to be welcomed in Bosnia and Herzegovina as a friend and that he did not consider her lobbying for amending electoral legislation as interference in the country's internal affairs.

ZAGREB, Jan 16 (Hina) - Croatia's Minister of the Interior, Davor Božinović, will pay an official visit to the United States from January 17 to 19 to promote bilateral cooperation.

The Prime Minister voices his satisfaction and reassures that reforms are still very much the plan.

26 years have passed since the Republic of Croatia was recognised as an independent state.

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