GRANIC CONTINUES WITH DIPLOMATIC CONTACTS WITH HIS COUNTERPARTS

NEW YORK, Sept 22 (Hina) - During the 54th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Croatian Foreign Minister Mate Granic held talks with his Greek and Macedonian counterparts in New York on Wednesday morning. Foreign Ministers of Greece, Georgious Papandreu, and of Macedonia, Alexander Dimitrov, talked with Granic about the Stability Pact for Southeastern Europe and the situation in that part of the Continent. All three countries believe that it would be recommendable to cooperate inside the Pact on concrete projects that have better prospects of receiving financial assistance if they involve more countries. Greece and Macedonia share Croatia's view that the Stability Pact is no space for any new association but rather for concrete and practical cooperation in issues in which there is general interest. Minister Papandreu supported Croatia's attempts to build the Adriatic motorway as an important European road. Granic and Dimitrov discussed questions of the succession to the former Yugoslavia. In New York, the Stability Pact was discussed during a working dinner for ministers and diplomats of UN member-states from Eastern Europe, whose host was a delegation of Bosnia-Herzegovina. On Wednesday afternoon local time, US State Secretary Madaleine Albright began her meeting with foreign ministers of the Stability Pact member-countries. The United Nations Security Council has received a letter of Croatia's Justice Minister Zvonimir Separovic on what has been taken to solve the dispute between Croatia and the ICTY Prosecutors' Office. (hina) ms