CROATIAN PARLIAMENT DELEGATION VISITS BUDAPEST

( Editorial: --> 3805 ) BUDAPEST, Sept 28 (Hina) - Croatian National Parliament representatives headed by Secretary-General Berislav Zivkovic on Monday held talks with representatives of the Hungarian Parliament. Cooperation between the two countries' parliaments was established during a meeting between the parliament presidents in 1997, and was consummated by the visit of a Hungarian Parliament delegation to Zagreb at the beginning of this year. Zivkovic described the talks in Budapest as very useful, because of the possibility of MPs getting acquainted with the work and functioning of the Hungarian Parliament, and the exchange of experiences. Participants at the talks agreed that cooperation should in the future be extended by an exchange of materials, talks on the promotion of the technical functioning of the two parliaments, and similar issues. The Croatian MPs were also received by the deputy speaker of the Hungarian Parliament, Katalin Sili. The talks focused on local elections that took place in Hungary in October. Sili and the Croatian MPs also tackled electoral systems of both countries and the position of minorities. Katalin Sili was elected into the Hungarian Parliament in the part of Baranja with a Hungarian majority, a region in the east of Croatia, where she cooperated with representatives of the Croat minorities. (hina) lml 282022 MET sep 98