CROATIAN DELEGATION MEETS POLAND'S DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER

( Editorial: --> 1211 ) WARSAW, March 20 (Hina) - Members of the House of Counties, led by Speaker Katica Ivanisevic, met Polish Deputy Foreign Minister, Andrzej Ananicz, in Warsaw on Friday. The meeting discussed the wish, shared by both countries, for a speedier integration into Europe, the situation in the Croatian Danubian area and the situation in Kosovo. MP Ivan Aralica stressed that for Croatia, any rapprochement with Europe depended on the realisation of the Dayton and Washington Accords, despite the fact that Croatia played only a partial role in their implementation. "In this way, Croatia has become practically a hostage of the Bosnian situation," Ivanisevic added. The delegation's visit on Thursday to the House of German-Polish Reconciliation in Gdansk showed how unrealistic the world's expectations were for a full and immediate reconciliation in the Danubian area, she emphasised. "The reconciliation between Germans and Poles has only been raised now, 50 years after the war, yet we are being expected to achieve it immediately," she said. (hina) jn as/mrb 202119 MET mar 98