ASHDOWN TO MEET SANADER AND MESIC IN ZAGREB TODAY

MOSTAR, Jan 20(Hina) - The international community's High Representative to Bosnia-Herzegovina, Paddy Ashdown, will meet Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader in Zagreb on Tuesday for the first time since the appointment of the new government in Croatia, the Office of the High Representative (OHR) has said.#L# Later in the day, Ashdown will have separate talks with Croatian President Stjepan Mesic. The OHR said the talks with Sanader and Mesic would focus on all issues of importance to Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina as well as on Croatia's efforts to join the European Union. One of the most important subjects will be the administrative reorganisation of the southern Bosnian city of Mostar, which will apparently have to be decided by Ashdown himself because talks with Bosnian Croat and Muslim political parties in Mostar have yielded no substantial results. Ashdown arrives in Zagreb before his visit to Mostar later this week when it will be clear whether the British diplomat will use his powers as the High Representative and impose a solution in Mostar. (Hina) vm