Croatian President Ivo Josipovic said Thursday that he had a "good news" - which was that in Croatia there would be no more political obstruction to the economic cooperation with Serbia.

During a business forum between Croatia and Serbia, Josipovic said that "in some other times, there was this policy of obstruction, prejudices and fears preventing the cooperation, but the times are now past."

The Croatian president pointed out to the necessity of breaking the remnants of the policy which made every cooperation look like a business scandal. Commenting on President Tadic's statement that there seemed to be an impression that Serbian investments were not welcome in Croatia, Josipovic said he believed the situation was to the contrary.

"I deny that Serbian investments are not welcome in Croatia, but I do admit that certain Serbia's companies have been discriminated," he said, adding that he had informed Tadic about a number of Croatian companies that had been discriminated in Serbia.

The Croatian president stressed that good results could be achieved only by the two countries' cooperating in between themselves and with other countries in the region, particularly in the coming times, when Croatia and Serbia would be part of the huge European market with its strict rules and laws.

"We can make it on the market if we cooperate, otherwise our little economies will have to compete with the better developed economies of bigger countries, which enjoy strong political support," Josipovic underlined.