A panel “HOW THEY SEE US Foreign ambassadors about the similarities and differences between countries and people in the region” was organized in Rovinj last weekend as part of the “Weekend Media Festival”.
They spend an average of three to four years in our countries. Some of them have the desire to get to know in detail the customs, mentality, food and culture of the countries where they are serving, while others view their service exclusively as a bureaucratic job in which the most important thing is to represent the interests of their country. How do foreign ambassadors see us? How much do they know about us, what prejudices do they come with and what do they take in their suitcases when they leave the service? In their eyes, what are Croats, Serbs, Slovenians, Bosnians and other nations in these areas like? These questions were answered by the participants in the panel.
The moderator of the panel was Robert Čoban, president of Color Press Group, and the participants – H.E. Kalle Kankaanpää, the Ambassador of Finland to the Republic of Croatia, the Holy See (Vatican) and Bosnia and Herzegovina, H.E. Jelena Milić, the Ambassador of the Republic of Serbia to the Republic of Croatia and H.E. Adrian Farrell, the Ambassador of Ireland in Slovenia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.