CROATIAN, AUSTRIAN EMPLOYERS SIGN COOPERATION AGREEMENT

VIENNA, June 18 (Hina) - The Austrian Industrialists Association and the Croatian Employers Association on Wednesday signed an agreement on cooperation. The agreement was signed by the president and head manager of the Austrian Industrialist Association, Peter Mitterbauer and Lorenz Fritz respectively, and the vice-president of the Croatian Employers Association presidency, Zlatko Novak. According to the agreement, the two countries' associations should cooperate on various issues of common interest, such as labour and social issues, general economy issues, the exchange of information on fundamental macro-economic indicators, and especially cooperation in programmes for small and medium-sized enterprise, the organization of round tables and conferences. During today's talks, the delegations of the two associations pointed out the good economic cooperation and commodity exchange between Croatia and Austria. There existed numerous possibilities to expand such cooperation, they said. The delegations also agreed on cooperation between the regional offices of the two associations. (hina) ha 182126 MET jun 97