ITALIAN PRESIDENT LAYS WREATHS AT MEDVEDGRAD AND MIROGOJ

( Editorial: --> 9035 ) ZAGREB, Dec 17 (Hina) - Italian President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro on Wednesday laid wreaths at the Altar of the Homeland in the Medvedgrad fortress above Zagreb. Scalfaro and his delegation were accompanied by Croatian Foreign Minister Mate Granic and Croatia's Ambassador to Italy Davorin Rudolf. After the wreath-laying, Scalfaro signed the book of impressions in Medvedgrad. The Italian President then visited the Mirogoj cemetery in Zagreb and laid a wreath in the part where Italian soldiers killed in World War One and Italian partisans killed in World War Two are buried. Before his address to the Croatian state parliament, Scalfaro and his delegation visited the papal nunciature in Zagreb. On this occasion, apostolic nuncio Giulio Einaudi and Zagreb archbishop Josip Bozanic served a mass. (hina) ha jn 171343 MET dec 97