PRESIDENT TUDJMAN RECEIVES INDIAN AMBASSADOR

( Editorial: --> 3025 ) ZAGREB, Jan 8 (Hina) - Croatian President Franjo Tudjman on Thursday received the new Indian Ambassador to Croatia, Udai Singh, who handed over his credentials. Singh said India would like to work together with Croatia as much as possible in different international bodies. He stressed that India and Croatia could strengthen their economic and technological cooperation. Tudjman said that Croatia paid particular attention to relations with India because of the exceptional role this big country played internationally. He added that Croatia wanted many-sided political, economic and cultural relations with India. Tudjman said that a leader of the Croatian people between the two world wars, Stjepan Radic, had been called the Croatian Ghandi because he had used Ghandi's principles in politics and life. (hina) lm mm 081351 MET jan 98