CRO, FRENCH MILITARY TEAMS SOON TO START JOINT PROJECTS IMPLMENTATION

IMPLMENTATION $ - MILJAVAC ZAGREB, Oct 8 (Hina) - Expert teams of the Croatian and French Ministries of Defense will in the upcoming months be able to start the technical implementation of joint projects on the basis of a military cooperation agreement signed yesterday, the Croatian army's chief-of-staff, Lt. Gen. Pavao Miljavac, said on Wednesday. Areas of interest for both countries were "the education of officers, training, perhaps even starting a project in armament", Miljavac told reporters upon returning from a two-day visit to Paris where he headed a Croatian military delegation. Yesterday, Miljavac and his French counterpart, army general Jean-Philippe Douin, signed an agreement on military cooperation between the Croatian and French Ministries of Defense. While in Paris, the Croatian delegation visited the French army headquarters, the Ecole Militaire military academy, and the Home of the Disabled, where it got acquainted with the French army's health service, the recovery of the seriously wounded in particular. (hina) ha jn 081800 MET oct 97