DEPUTY P.M. ATTENDS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WOMEN'S SPORT

( Editorial: --> 4151 ) ATHENS, Sept 29 (Hina) - A three-day European conference on sports for women, organised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), ended on Tuesday in Athens. Croatia, one of 40 countries represented, sent a delegation to the Greek capital lead by Deputy Prime Minister Ljerka Mintas-Hodak. Speaking on that occasion, IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch emphasised that women competed on the same footing with men in all the Olympic disciplines. He promised that by the year 2000 the percentage of women in the IOC's expert bodies would be at least 10 per cent, and by 2005 no less than 20 per cent, a great improvement to the present situation. Ljerka Mintas-Hodak and other members of the Croatian delegation talked with delegations from the countries that recently attended a regional conference for women in sports, that was successfully organised in Zagreb by the IOC and the Croatian Olympic Committee. The next European conference on women in sports will be held in 2000 in Helsinki, Finland and the world-wide one in 2002 in Ottawa, Canada. (Hina) mro /mbr 292132 MET sep 98