CRO PARLIAMENTARY DELEGATION MEETS WITH GERMAN BUNDESTAG REPS

BONN, Oct 8 (Hina) - A Croatian parliamentary delegation headed by parliament speaker Vlatko Pavletic visiting Germany on Wednesday held a meeting in Bonn with members of the Bundestag's foreign policy committee, representatives of the German parliament and the head of federal chancellor's office, Fridriech Bohl. After talks with members of the foreign policy committee, Pavletic said talks were open and about all issues, adding the Croatian delegation assessed some processes in Croatia were not proceeding as planned due to objective circumstances. Pavletic said the Croatian delegation explained to the hosts why Croatia thinks the UNTAES mandate should end 15 January 1998. They told them reintegration in the Danube river region of eastern Croatia was full-blown, in health, education, financing, the judiciary. The extension of the mandate would mean non-respecting the efforts made by the Croatian government, he added. The Croatian delegation also informed the German parliamentarians about the government's programme on the restoration of trust. The talks also focused on the recent voluntary surrender of ten Bosnian Croats to The Hague war crimes tribunal which, according to Pavletic, the German welcomed, but also warned this showed the imbalance in what Croatia was doing in the implementation of the Dayton peace accord and what other signatories and the international community were. Commenting on his talks with Bohl, Pavletic said they focused on the implementation of the Dayton and Washington peace accords. We asked Bohl to use his influence among those circles in the international community which are stopping credits to Croatia, Pavletic said. Bohl, he added, said Germany was in particular interested for a successful democratic and economic development of Croatia. Talks with German parliamentary representatives focused on all current issues relating to Croatia, Pavletic said, adding concrete assistance, especially in mine-clearing, has been offered. The Croatian delegation met with understanding especially as regards the economic connection between Germany and Croatia. The necessity of better information about Croatia was pointed out, especially in relation to possibilities of investing. (hina) ha 082344 MET oct 97