Croatia wants to assist Ukraine in demining and prosecuting war crimes

Prime Minister Plenković attended in Tirana the second Ukraine-Southeast Europe summit, which was hosted by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Albanian President Edi Rama.

The meeting in Tirana was also an occasion for bilateral meetings with the President of Ukraine Zelensky and the Chairperson of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Borjana Krišto.

In a statement to the press, he said that the main topics of the meeting with president Zelensky related to Croatia's further support to Ukraine, especially in the area of demining, war crime prosecution, and the continuation of Croatia's broadest political, economic, diplomatic, humanitarian and military support to Ukraine.

Croatia can assist Ukraine in demining and war crimes trials, Prime Minister Andrej Plenković said.

He reminded that Croatia was the host of a large international donor conference where 500 million euros were raised for demining Ukraine.

We are very interested in Croatian companies, which make state-of-the-art demining machinery, being among the leading actors. I think we have world leading companies, he said.

He reiterated that absolutely no one who attended a summit of Ukraine's Western allies in Paris on Monday offered or requested that troops be sent to Ukraine.

"Therefore, everything we have seen in the media in that sense does not correspond to what occurred at the meeting," he told the press. "What was discussed were some very specific skills which can assist Ukrainian soldiers in defending their territory."

The point of the Paris summit was to win broad support for continuing to assist Ukraine militarily, not to arrange the sending of troops, Plenković said.

With Chairperson of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Borjana Krišto, PM Plenković discussed the reforms BIH is delivering on so that next month the EU could decide to open accession negotiations with it.