CROATIA AND BOSNIA CONSIDER NEW JOINT STRATEGY FOR TRANSPORT

SARJEVO, June 3 (Hina) - A two-day symposium on the place and roles of Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina in European transport and communications corridors has begun in Sarajevo on Tuesday. The meeting, held under the sponsorship of the Croatian and Bosnian Academies of Arts and Sciences, or HAZU and ANUBIH respectively, has attracted senior officials of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia. The HAZU President Ivan Supek greeted participants of the symposium where 14 studies on transport and communications needs of the two countries would be presented. Croatian Transport Minister Zeljko Luzavec said at the event that talks on the place of Croatia and Bosnia in European transport, which had started a year before in Zagreb, had already yielded results in discussions with other European countries on transport corridors. European countries have taken in consideration requests by Croatia and Bosnia to be included in a net of European road and communications corridors that should link the Baltic and the Adriatic Sea as well as eastern and western Europe. A Helsinki meeting of European transport organisations, due to be on June 22, should decide on this issue. "Bosnia and Croatia now need a new joint transport strategy," Luzavec told the Sarajevo gathering. He added that a corridor from the Croatian seaport of Ploce via Mostar and Sarajevo to Budapest interested Croatia in particular. (hina) jn mš 031409 MET jun 97