The Government of Croatia's decision February 11 to terminate support for EROTEL television in Bosnia and Herzegovina and to cooperate with the Government of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the development of Federation Television;

The announcement on March 8 of Government of Croatia participation with the Government of Bosnia and Herzegovina in an initiative to ensure transparency and centralized coordination of all Government of Croatia military subsidies to the Bosnian Croat component of the Federation military (HVO) and an overall reduction in those subsidies;

The issuance on March 9 of a joint declaration with the Republika Srpska committing to facilitate the return of 2,000 refugees and to improve cross-border cooperation on all return issues within 3months;

The transfer to ICTY on March 21 of indictee Mladen "Tuta" Naletelic, and the Government of Croatia's provision to ICTY of documents which were the subject of long-standing tribunal requests;

Early Government of Croatia action to initiate internal assessments and reform of the Ministries of Defense and Interior;

The creation, within Parliament, of oversight committees with a clear mandate to review the activities of both the Ministries of Defense and Interior, as well as others involved in spending public funds;

The Government of Croatia's announcement on March 3 of a two-month program including, among other things, the revision of discriminatory legislation and government decrees which affect refugee return and reconstruction issues, and the progress already made in these areas; and

The recent Government of Croatia initiative to reach out, for the first time since the war, to Serbian opposition groups in an effort to identify concrete ways to support their struggle for democratic change in Serbia.