CROATIAN FOREIGN MINISTER MEETS ISRAELI JOURNALISTS IN DUBROVNIK

DUBROVNIK, Sept 3 (Hina) - Croatian Foreign Minister Mate Granic met a group of Israeli journalists in the southern coastal town of Dubrovnik on Wednesday. The meeting was also attended by Dubrovnik County prefect Jure Buric and Mayor Vido Bogdanovic. Granic said after the talks that they discussed the forthcoming signing of a protocol on the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries, the opening of a Croatian embassy in Israel and prospects for economic, cultural and scientific cooperation. Granic said that they also talked about Croatia's political, economic and security goals as well as its relations with Euro- Atlantic structures and the reintegration of the UN-administered Danube river region into Croatia. (hina) vm jn 032003 MET sep 97