RULING COALITION LEADERS RESUME TALKS

ZAGREB, March 6 (Hina) - The leaders of the ruling coalition's five parties on Wednesday afternoon resumed talks on ways of getting out of its current crisis, and on issues which remain open after yesterday's meeting. According to unofficial sources, the five party presidents need to agree on how Economy Minister Goranko Fizulic, of the Social Liberals (HSLS), should leave the government. The five officials, particularly the president of the Social Democrats, Ivica Racan, and HSLS leader Drazen Budisa, have to establish if Fizulic is to leave at once, as the HSLS allegedly demands, or in late May, as Prime Minister Racan would like. Fizulic's departure became an important issue at the end of yesterday's meeting. Shortly after Racan said Fizulic would remain in the government until the end of May, sources at the coalition and the HSLS said this was Racan's personal interpretation, and that the HSLS demands that Fizulic leave at once. The ruling coalition leaders resumed today's talks after 1600 hours. There were no statements before the meeting. Shortly after the meeting began, Budisa left, without any public explanation. (hina) ha sb