CROATIAN CENTRAL BANK GOVERNOR IN HONG KONG

ZAGREB, Sept 21 (Hina) - The Governor of the National Bank of Croatia, Marko Skreb, has called on the International Monetary Fund to continue providing support for Croatia's economic stabilisation and reconstruction programme, saying that the country's credit rating may face problems unless it is granted loans, Croatian television said in its prime time news programme on Sunday night. Skreb was quoted as telling an annual meeting of the IMF and the World Bank in Hong Kong that "Croatia doesn't need money in the shorter term, but what I am concerned about is long-term consequences." Skreb said that Croatia had done its utmost to fulfil conditions set in the IMF stabilisation programme agreed upon in 1993. "We are aware of our commitments under the Dayton peace agreement, but we think that it is not good that politics is so directly involved in the decision-making of the IMF board," Skreb said. (hina) vm 212120 MET sep 97