CRO DELEGATION ATTENDS NATIONAL PRAYER BREAKFAST IN WASHINGTON

( Editorial: --> 9723 ) WASHINGTON, Feb 5 (Hina) - At the traditional National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, US President Bill Clinton appealed to the world to ensure the right to freedom of religion. This annual meeting is dedicated to the strengthening of faith in the world and has been taking place for 46 years. Attending are the US President, Vice President, representatives of the US Congress and several thousand dignitaries from the United States and the world. Present at the breakfast were Croatian Reconstruction and Development Minister Jure Radic and Croatian Ambassador to the United States, Miomir Zuzul. Radic, who arrived in Washington on Wednesday, leaves for Pittsburgh where he will hold talks with leaders of the Croatian Fraternity Union about the Union's possibility of investing into the reconstruction of Vukovar. He is then to travel to San Francisco where he will continue negotiations with the Bechtel corporation about the construction of the Zagreb-Dubrovnik highway. (hina) lm jn 051852 MET feb 98