CRO CULTURE MINISTER RECEIVES DIRECTOR OF TURKISH STATE ARCHIVES

ZAGREB, Mar 19 (Hina) - Croatian Culture Minister Bozo Biskupic on Wednesday received the director of the Turkish State Archives, Ismet Binark, who is visiting the Croatian capital on the invitation of the Croatian State Archives, with the aim of signing a cooperation agreement for the next three years. According to Biskupic, his Turkish counterpart, Ismail Kahraman, invited the Croatian Culture Ministry for a visit, when a programme for cultural, educational and scientific cooperation between the Croatian and Turkish governments would be signed. Today's meeting would fortify the good relations between the two countries in the fields of culture and science, Biskupic added. The signing of a cooperation agreement between the two state archives was very significant, he assessed, and also informed Binark that Croatia would soon pass a law on archives similar to European laws. Binark also pointed to the significance of the agreement to be signed, and added that many documents referring to the history of Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina were filed in the Turkish archives. Croatian experts could sojourn in Turkey and peruse the materials for studies, Binark stressed. He presented the Croatian Culture Ministry with an atlas dating back to 1789, in which Croatia's borders at the time of the Ottoman Empire can be seen. (hina) ha 191358 MET mar 97