A BRIEF LOOK AT CROATIAN PRESS ON TUESDAY

ZAGREB, Jan 30 (Hina) - "Higher Wages to Scientists," is a front- page headline of today's VJESNIK for a report on a press-briefing of Croatian Premier Zlatko Matesa on the 1996 budget, which he held yesterday. The daily publishes a report of the Croatian Commission for Missing Persons and POW Exchange. Writing about a visit of Croatian Foreign Minister Mate Granic to London a correspondent, Jasna Zanic Nardini, says that the tour of Mr. Granic happened at the moment of a gradual rise in the British-Croatian relations. She added that Granic and his British guests would not only discuss the promotion of the bilateral relations but also the admittance of Croatia into European integration processes. On the front-page the other daily VECERNJI LIST also reports on the Government's announcement on budget items. "Metamorphoses of David Owen," is a headline of a comment piece by a daily columnist, Milan Jajcinovic, who writes about the British diplomat's lecture on prospects of peace in former Yugoslavia at the United Nations in New York recently. A correspondent Nenad Ivankovic writes about a Serb officer who is willing to give testimony to crimes of Bosnian Serb leaders Karadzic and Mladic, at the International War Crimes Court in the Hague. The daily carries an interview with a Serb Orthodox priest, Danilo Ljubotin, who lives in Pula. VECERNJI LIST publishes a report on yesterday's tour of US Ambassador Peter Galbraith and a Croatian vice premier, Borislav Skegro, to Zupanja and IFOR troops. (hina) jn mms 301203 MET jan 96