PRESIDENT TUDJMAN RECEIVES LETTERS OF CONGRATULATIONS ON STATEHOOD DAY

STATEHOOD DAY ( Editorial: --> 7655 ) ZAGREB, May 29 (Hina) - Croatian President Franjo Tudjman on Saturday received numerous letters of congratulations on the occasion of Croatia's Statehood Day. Among others, he received letters from UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Croat member of the Bosnia-Herzegovina Presidency, Kresimir Zubak. As the UN continues to adjust to the needs of the increasingly globalised period, it is exceptionally important that it can count on a stronger and constant support from Croatia, Annan said in his letter. Zubak recalled that the "establishment of the independent Croatian state realised the aspiration of all the Croatian people". "The same is the aspiration that Croatia realises its full political, economic and cultural development and spiritual renaissance, and as such, be integrated into the free western world, to which it belongs as full member and equal factor," Zubak said in his letter. (hina) lm 301056 MET may 98