CROATIA AT TOP OF TRANSITION COUNTRIES - SKEGRO

DUBROVNIK, June 26 (Hina) - The third international conference on economic and financial changes in transition countries continued in Dubrovnik on Thursday. On the second day, representatives of seven countries in transition and experts of international financial institutions, including the International Monetary Fund, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the World Bank, discussed the experiences of Hungary, Slovenia and Croatia. Croatian Deputy Prime Minister Borislav Skegro said that Croatia was ranked at the top of transition countries by standards of macroeconomic stability. It was estimated that this year Croatia would achieve high economic growth and sustain a low inflation rate of three to five per cent, Skegro said. (hina) vm 261501 MET jun 97