HC Deb 12 January 1993 vol 216 cc723-4W
Mr. Spearing

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs by what means and at which date and location the Council of Ministers of the European Community determined policy in respect of the recognition of Croatia; and when and by what means such recognition was signified by Her Majesty's Government.

Mr. Douglas Hogg

The Council of Ministers of the European Community, meeting in Brussels on 15 January 1992, decided that Croatia should be recognised. The Prime Minister wrote to President Tudjman later that day recording the British Government's recognition of Croatia.