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FOREIGN PRESS BUREAU ZAGREB
Daily Bulletin

October 26, 1998

In todays bulletin:
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1. Gelbard: Croatia Must Take Steps to Firm Relations With U.S.
2. Granic Meets With Gelbard
3. Pavletic Speak at the CEI Conference
4. Kostovic Meets With Ambassadors From France, China & B-H
5. 5th War Veterans' Convention Held in Vukovar
6. Croatia to Join  WTO in 1999
7. "Croatian Days" to Introduce the West Coast to Croatian Potential
8. Experts Working on Sakic Case Advised to Visit America
9. Mediterane & Dubrovacko Primorje d.d. Sign Protocol on Co-operation
10. Matesa Receives Delegation From Primorje-Gorski Kotar
11. Gojko Susak Fund to Finance Post-Graduate Studies in the U.S.
12. International Centre for Journalists Opens in Opatija
13. Tudjman Decorates 42 Workers of the Military Police
14. Tudjman Receives Outgoing Chilean Ambassador
15. Crnkovic Decorated With Croatian Pleter
16. Major General Griffits Decorated for His Help in Creating Croatia's
Armed Forces


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1. GELBARD: CROATIA MUST TAKE STEPS TO FIRM RELATIONS WITH U.S.

Speaking in Zagreb, the US special envoy for the implementation of the
Dayton accords Robert Gelbard said that the U.S. wants close relations with
Croatia, but that Croatia has to take steps that will firm bilateral
relations between the two countries. Gelbard also said that Croatia had to
achieve standards necessary for entering Euro-Atlantic structures and once
that was fulfilled the U.S. would fully support the process. Gelbard
reiterated Washington's views of the need for the democratisation of the
Croatian media and changes being made to its electoral law.


2. GRANIC MEETS WITH GELBARD

The Croatian Foreign Minister, Dr. Mate Granic, received US Special Envoy,
Robert Gelbard, in Zagreb on Friday to discuss Croatian-American relations
and to find a lasting solution to the Prevlaka issue. Work groups centred
on the implementation of the Dayton Accord and Croatia's membership in the
Partnership for Peace. Granic also informed the American delegation on
developments in brokering a special relations agreement with Bosnia and
Herzegovina and in the signing of the Agreement on Ploce Harbour and Neum.


3. PAVLETIC SPEAK AT THE CEI CONFERENCE

The Croatian delegation is still attending the second CEI conference of
parliamentary speakers in Graz. The conference will focus on security in
the region and the implementation of the Trieste Treaty adopted at last
year's conference which aims to strengthen the executive role of
parliaments in the fight against international organised crime