CROATIAN PRIME MINISTER RECEIVES GERMAN TRANSPORT MINISTER

ZAGREB, Oct 17 (Hina) - Croatian Prime Minister Zlatko Matesa and German Transport Minister Matthias Wissmann held talks in Zagreb on Friday about the development of the transport situation in Bosnia-Herzegovina and its traffic ties with Croatia. The manner of development of security and integration processes was important for traffic, Matesa said, adding that a transition from political to economic aspect was under way in Bosnia. Joint trilateral projects (of Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and the United States) of traffic routes Zagreb-Bihac-Sarajevo- Dubrovnik and Ploce-Sarajevo-Croatian territory-Hungary were very important, Matesa said and added that Croatia was prepared for the start of the projects. Problems on the Bosniac (Moslem) side were described by Matesa as "more political that technical". He said that because of its "influence on the political will", the European Union should be included in the whole process. Wissmann commended the conduct of the Croatian government in the past several weeks, describing it as generous and useful for an impression of Croatia. On behalf of the Croatian government, Matesa thanked Wissmann for his help with the opening of the 10th European corridor, which includes the motorway Ljubljana-Zagreb-Belgrade, describing Wissmann's idea on the holding of a conference of all countries though which the 10th corridor passes as interesting and useful. (hina) lm 171241 MET oct 97