CROATIAN FOREIGN MINISTER HOLDS TALKS WITH UN SECRETARY-GENERAL

WASHINGTON, Sept 28 (Hina) - Croatian Foreign Minister Mate Granic on Monday held talks with UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan about the mandate of the UN monitoring mission on Prevlaka. Prevlaka is Croatia's southern-most tip bordering with the Yugoslav Republic of Montenegro to which Yugoslavia has pretensions. Granic is heading a Croatian delegation to the 53rd session of the UN General Assembly in New York, at which he is to hold a speech Monday night, local time. Annan is to submit a report to the UN Security Council on the situation on Prevlaka, with a recommendation on the future mandate of the 30 UN monitors currently on the peninsula. Granic forwarded to Annan Croatia's wish that the UN mandate ends with the completion of the present mandate, on January 154 next year. Granic invited Annan to visit Croaia, and handed him a letter in which it is stressed that Croatia is making itself available to cooperate in UN's peace missions in other parts of the world. Granic also held talks on Monday with Hungarian Foreign Minister Janosz Martoni about the relations between the two countries, and the construction of a highway from Croatia's port of Rijeka to the Hungarian border, the establishment of a free zone in the port and its use. (hina) lml 282200 MET sep 98