FIRST HUNGARIAN AMBASSADOR TO CROATIA RECEIVES UNIVERSITY AWARDS

( Editorial: --> 6100 ) ZAGREB, Mar 2 (Hina) - The University of Zagreb on Monday awarded its charter and memorial plaque to Gabor Bagi, who served as the Republic of Hungary's first ambassador to Croatia from the time of the Republic of Croatia's international recognition in 1992 until 1995. Bagi was awarded the recognition, for his many years of successful cooperation and promotion of cultural and scientific links between Croatia and Hungary, by the University of Zagreb Senate on University Day 1996. On Monday Bagi received the awards in the University Rectorate from Professor Dr. Marijan Sunjic, who was the university rector at the time of Bagi's diplomatic mandate in Croatia. Sunjic emphasised that it was to Bagi's exceptional credit that progress had been made in cultural and scientific links between the Hungarian and Croatian peoples. The former rector especially emphasised the importance of the establishment of the Department of Hungarian Studies at Zagreb's Faculty of Arts. (Hina) jn mb 022220 MET mar 98