YU FOREIGN MINISTER EXPECTS PARIS CLUB DEBT WILL BE WRITTEN OFF

BELGRADE, Aug 4 (Hina) - Upon returning from a visit to the United States on Saturday, Yugoslav Foreign Minister Goran Svilanovic said he expected "the Paris Club will write off a big part of (Yugoslavia's) debt." The debt the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia owes the members of the Paris Club, namely Great Britain, Italy, France, Japan, and Canada, totals $4.6 billion. Svilanovic told reporters at Belgrade's Surcin airport foreign investments would depend on how Yugoslavia regulated its debt to the Paris Club. The foreign minister was encouraged by the support a Yugoslav delegation received in the U.S. ahead of talks on Yugoslavia's future status in the Paris Club, which have been scheduled for the autumn. In the U.S. the Yugoslav delegation, which included the federal Prime Minister in charge of foreign economic relations, Miroljub Labus, and Serbia's Finance Minister Bozidar Djelic, agreed to resume the normalisation of U.S.-Yugoslav economic relations in September. Svilanovic said the U.S. talks focused on Serbs' participation in Kosovo elections in November. This issue was discussed with State Secretary Colin Powell, who was told Serbs expected a higher level of security in Kosovo and learning about missing and abducted persons. (hina) ha