BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO.3710 HINA ZAGREB, 4 AUGUST 2000

HR-POLITICS-BULLETIN-Politika BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO.3710 HINA ZAGREB, 4 AUGUST 2000 RACAN DESCRIBES CROATIAN-US RELATIONS AS FRIENDLYZAGREB, Aug 4 (Hina) - Croatian Prime Minister Ivica Racan in an interview for Croatia's daily "Jutarnji List", Friday's issue, said relations between Croatia and the United States were friendly and intensive. "Relations between Croatia and the United States are really friendly and intensive in many field", said the Croatian Prime Minister and added Croatia was interested in friendly relations with the United States, as well as the United States are interested in good relations with small Croatia, considering the significance of Croatia's role in this region. The Prime Minister stressed that during their coming meeting with U.S President Bill Clinton, President Mesic and he would reiterate Croatia's standpoints, and added they would try to jointly analyse which field of cooperation would be of interest to both countries. Besides this visit in