CROATIAN FIRST DEPUTY PM:TALKS WITH ENRON PROCEEDING WELL

WASHINGTON, June 8 (Hina) - Talks with Enron representatives are being conducted in a good atmosphere and we are coming closer to the definition of a solution about a contract on the Jeretovac power plant, which will be satisfactory to both parties, said Croatia's First Deputy Prime Minister Goran Granic in Houston on Thursday. Granic is the head of a Croatian delegation consisting of Economy Minister Goranko Fizulic, Fizulic's assistant Roman Nota, HEP (Power Industry) director Ivo Covic, Croatia's Ambassador to the United States, Miomir Zuzul, and Aleksandar Heina, advisor on economy at the Croatian Embassy, who held two rounds of the closed talks with officials of the US corporation Enron on Thursday. The Enron officials are led by the company's Vice President Joe Sutton. Croatians explained to the U.S. partners their Government's programme of reforms in the energy supplies market under which the future Jeretovac gas power plant be one in a series of private power plants. Owing to new strategic concepts, an agreement signed with Enron last year should be changed. "We are close to a solution which suits both parties," Granic said. The talks should be completed by Friday afternoon. If they progress according to expectations, a general contract will be initialled. After that Croatian and American experts should draft a text of the new contract. (hina) ms