CROATIAN ECONOMY MINISTER HOLDS TALKS WITH UKRAINIAN DELEGATION

ZAGREB, Nov 30 (Hina) - Croatian Economy Minister Goranko Fizulic on Thursday received a Ukrainian delegation led by Volodymyr Shchelkunov, the head of the Ukrainian national committee for international economic chamber of commerce (UNOMPK), the Croatian Government's public relations office reported this evening. The purpose of the visit of the Ukrainian delegation which included representatives of Ukrainian employers, unionists and business people, is to examine possibilities for the furtherance of the bilateral cooperation. The Ukrainian guests expressed interest in the cooperation in metallurgy, power, timber and wood, pharmaceutical and shipbuilding industries. Fizulic told the guests that his country would like to export equipment, medicines, means of transports and different machines in Ukraine and import ship plates and certain kinds of foodstuffs and agricultural produce from that country so that Zagreb and Kiev could achieve a balanced exchange of commodities. Fizulic and the Ukrainian delegation agreed that there were good prospects of intensifying the cooperation and this would be facilitated by an agreement on free trade on which the two countries were conducting negotiations. (hina) ms