a minute agoFormer Croatian President: I've been talking a lot about Putin. I've seen aggression against Ukraine.
Periskopi(4 years ago)
(4 years ago)The leading Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter published yesterday a long conversation with former Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarov, presenting it as a possible successor of NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, the newspaper Express follows. Currently, the former Norwegian prime minister in the coming autumn of eight years will leave his post in the Alliance of Defence and [...]
Specifically, the former Norwegian prime minister in the coming autumn of eight years will leave his post in the Alliance of Defence and become governor of the Norwegian Central Bank.
In an interview for the Swedish newspaper Kolinda Grabar -Kitarovic has not wanted to comment on media speculation that he could become NATO Secretary General.
The former Croatian president also received several comments to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Grabar-Kitarovic stressed that she had observed Russia's aggression against Ukraine for a long time and warned of the possibility of a global crisis: “unfortunately, that is exactly what happened. I think there was some kind of naive thinking. His 2000 political manifest, which mentions the restoration of the economic power and position of Russia in the world. Events in Georgia and Crime later revealed what would happen”.
She gave a description of Putin.
In my meetings with him, he was normal and respectful. We have discussed bilateral issues, but also about the regional situation in Southeast Europe. We discussed, among other things, Agrokor, a company owned by most Russian banks and threatened by collapses. In this, but also in several other regional issues, Putin was constructive and gave a solution to”, the former Croatian president said.
