Croatia

• Mediterranean and continental;
• continental climate predominant with hot summers and cold winters;
• mild winters, dry summers along coast

• air pollution (from metallurgical plants) and resulting acid rain is damaging the forests;
• coastal pollution from industrial and domestic waste;
• widespread casualties and destruction of infrastructure in border areas affected by civil strife

party to:

Air Pollution, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands

signed, but not ratified:

Air Pollution-Sulphur 94, Desertification

0-14 years:

18% (male 417,181; female 395,430)

15-64 years:

68% (male 1,590,334; female 1,593,470)

65 years and over:

14% (male 253,201; female 415,094) (July 1997 est.)

at birth :

1.07 male(s)/female

under 15 years:

1.06 male(s)/female

15-64 years:

1 male(s)/female

65 years and over:

0.61 male(s)/female

total population :

0.94 male(s)/female (1997 est.)

noun:

Croat(s)

adjective:

Croatian

conventional long form:

Republic of Croatia

conventional short form:

Croatia

local long form:

Republika Hrvatska

local short form:

Hrvatska

chief of state:

President Franjo TUDJMAN (since 30 May 1990)

head of government:

• Prime Minister Zlatko MATESA (since NA November 1995);
• Deputy Prime Ministers Mate GRANIC (since 8 September 1992), Ivica KOSTOVIC (since 14 October 1993), Jure RADIC (since NA October 1994), Borislav SKEGRO (since 3 April 1993), and Ljerka MINTAS-HODAK (since November 1995)

cabinet:

Council of Ministers appointed by the president

elections:

• president elected by popular vote for a five-year term;
• election last held 4 August 1992 (next to be held 15 June 1997);
• prime minister and deputy prime ministers appointed by the president

election results:

President Franjo TUDJMAN reelected; percent of vote - Franjo TUDJMAN 56%, Dobroslav PARAGA 5%

• Supreme Court, judges appointed for eight-year terms by the Judicial Council of the Republic, which is elected by the House of Representatives;
• Constitutional Court, judges appointed for eight-year terms by the Judicial Council of the Republic, which is elected by the House of Representatives

• Croatian Democratic Union or HDZ [Franjo TUDJMAN, president];
• Croatian Democratic Independents or HND [Stjepan MESIC, president];
• Croatian Social Liberal Party or HSLS [Vlado GOTOVAC, president];
• Social Democratic Party of Croatia or SDP [Ivica RACAN];
• Croatian Party of Rights or HSP [Ante DAPIC];
• Croatian Peasants' Party or HSS [Zlatko TOMCIC];
• Croatian People's Party or HNS [Radimir CACIC, president];
• Serbian National Party or SNS [Milan DJUKIC];
• Action of the Social Democrats of Croatia or ASH [Silvija DEGEN];
• Croatian Christian Democratic Union or HKDU [Marko VASELICA, president];
• Istrian Democratic Assembly or IDS [Ivan JACKOVIC];
• Slanvonsko-Baranja Croatian Party or SBHS;
• Primorje Gorski Kotar Alliance

chief of mission:

Ambassador Miomir ZUZUL

chancery:

2343 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20008

telephone:

[1] (202) 588-5899

chief of mission:

Ambassador Peter W. GALBRAITH

embassy:

Andrije Hebranga 2, Zagreb

mailing address:

US Embassy, Zagreb, Department of State, Washington, DC 20521-5080

telephone:

[385] (1) 455-55-00

total value :

$4.6 billion (f.o.b., 1995)

commodities:

machinery and transport equipment 13.6%, miscellaneous manufactures 27.6%, chemicals 14.2%, food and live animals 12.2%, raw materials 6.1%, fuels and lubricants 9.4%, beverages and tobacco 2.7% (1993)

partners:

Germany 22%, Italy 21%, Slovenia 18% (1994)

total value:

$7.6 billion (c.i.f., 1995)

commodities:

machinery and transport equipment 23.1%, fuels and lubricants 8.8%, food and live animals 9.0%, chemicals 14.2%, miscellaneous manufactured articles 16.0%, raw materials 3.5%, beverages and tobacco 1.4% (1993)

partners :

Germany 21%, Italy 19%, Slovenia 10% (1994)

domestic:

NA

international :

no satellite earth stations

total:

1,907 km

standard gauge :

1,907 km 1.435-m gauge (769 km electrified)

note: some lines inoperative or not in use; disrupted by territorial dispute (1997)

total:

26,929 km

paved:

21,947 km (including 302 km of expressways)

unpaved:

4,982 km (1995 est.)

• crude oil 670 km;
• petroleum products 20 km;
• natural gas 310 km (1992);
• note - under repair following territorial dispute

• Eastern Slavonia, which was held by ethnic Serbs during the ethnic conflict, is currently being overseen by the UN Transitional Administration for Eastern Slavonia;
• reintegration of Eastern Slavonia into Croatia will occur in 1997;
• Croatia and Italy have not resolved a bilateral issue dating from WWII over property and ethnic minority rights;
• maritime border dispute with Slovenia over direct access to the sea in the Adriatic;
• the border issue is currently under negotiation;
• Serbia and Montenegro is disputing Croatia's claim to the Prevlaka Peninsula in southern Croatia because it controls the entrance to Kotor Bay in Montenegro;
• Prevlaka is currently under observation by the UN military observer mission in Prevlaka (UNMOP)

• transit point along the Balkan route for Southwest Asian heroin to Western Europe;
• a minor transit point for maritime shipments of South American cocaine bound for Western Europe CUBA