GRANIC AND SILAJDZIC HOLD UNOFFICIAL TALKS IN VIENNA

VIENNA, March 7 (Hina) - Croatian Foreign Minister Mate Granic met unofficially in Vienna on Friday with the co-chairman of Bosnia- Herzegovina's Council of Ministers, Haris Silajdzic. The two officials exchanged views on the progress of the peace process, particularly in the Bosnian Moslem-Croat Federation, and open issues in the relations between Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. They agreed that talks should continue at all levels, including the Joint Council for Cooperation between Croatia and the Bosnian Federation, to resolve the open issues and encourage the implementation of all previous agreements on the Federation. Granic, who was heading the Croatian delegation at the conference on the implementation of the arbitration decision on the status of the northern Bosnian Sava river town of Brcko, had a number of bilateral meetings during the day. Granic held talks with Austrian Foreign Minister Wolfgang Schuessel, US Assistant Secretary of State John Kornblum, Yugoslav Foreign Minister Milan Milutinovic, Bosnian Foreign Minister Jadranko Prlic, Bosnian Federation President Kresimir Zubak and his deputy Ejup Ganic, and Bosnian Serb President Biljana Plavsic. (hina) vm 072228 MET mar 97