CROATIA'S PRESIDENT MESIC TO VISIT UNITED STATES NEXT WEEK

WASHINGTON, Jan 26 (Hina) - Croatian President Stjepan Mesic will fly to Washington next week to participate in the traditional prayer breakfast. Mesic has been invited by the US Congress and Congressman Frank Wolf to attend the 49th prayer breakfast. Besides him, a score of heads of state or government will be present at this event, organised on the occasion of the start of the work of the new composition of the Congress. Guests at the prayer breakfast will also be US President George W. Bush and Vice President Richard Cheney. "We are expecting that this will be the occasion for a brief meeting of President Mesic with President Bush and Vice President Cheney," Croatia's Ambassador in Washington, Ivan Grdesic, said on Friday. Mesic will also hold talks with World Bank President James Wolfensohn. This spring Zagreb and the World Bank are to sign 200- million-worth loan which should be used for the structural adjustments of Croatia's economy. At the end of his stay in the United States, Mesic will travel to Boston where he should give a lecture on the south-eastern Europe at the beginning of the 21th century, at famous Harvard University. (hina) ms