ALL CROATIAN PRIME MINISTERS MEET

ZAGREB, Sept 6 (Hina) - All Croatian prime ministers, past and present, gathered at villa Weiss in Zagreb on Thursday evening at an initiative of former PM Josip Manolic to exchange views on ways of solving the current problems of the Croatian state and society. Talking to reporters before the meeting, former PM and incumbent President Stipe Mesic said they had gathered on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the creation of independent Croatia. The initiator of the meeting, Manolic, said Croatia's past six governments "had huge problems which had to be solved. Based on that experience we thought the incumbent government might use that experience, not in a negative but positive sense in order to overcome the current difficulties and lead Croatia out of the crisis. That was approximately our goal." Manolic said the meeting was not directed against anybody but towards the future and the mobilisation of everything that was willing to tackle Croatia's crisis. "There are problems on the international level and internal ones, especially big economic and social ones, but they are not only this government's (problems) but of all of our (past) governments," he said. "I think it is all right for us to meet like this... unofficially, for talks, without making any historic decisions," said incumbent PM Ivica Racan. He added some of the problems of the incumbent government were similar to those encountered by past ones. "We shall probably talk about that. I will be smarter after the talks," he said. Other former PMs at the meeting include Franjo Greguric, Hrvoje Sarinic, Nikica Valentic, and Zlatko Matesa. (hina) ha