CROATIAN ECONOMY MINISTER MEETS BRITAIN'S MINISTER OF COMMERCE

ZAGREB, Nov 19 (Hina) - British Minister of Commerce Brian Wilson and Croatian Economy Minister Nenad Porges met in Zagreb on Thursday. The two officials discussed the trade deficit between Croatia and European Union countries, Croatia's aspirations towards opening its economy to EU countries, its admission to the World Trade Organisation and British investments in Croatia and its power production sector. Wilson said the meeting tackled the strengthening of trade relations between Croatia and Great Britain, as well as Croatia's relations towards the European Union. He described the talks as very open and added he hoped they would contribute to improving the relations between the two countries. There is enough room for the development of British-Croatian economic relations, said Wilson stressing the interest of British companies in the construction of power plants in Croatia and his wish for the Croatian tourism market to regain the importance it had in Great Britain before the Homeland war. We have opened a lot of topics and agreed that it is best for countries in transition to join global courses and liberalisation processes, Porges said. (hina) rml