A BRIEF LOOK AT CROATIAN PRESS ON WEDNESDAY

ZAGREB, Feb 14 (Hina) - Today's VJESNIK devotes the front page to President Tudjman's meeting with German Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel. The editorial, by Maja Freundlich, is headlined "Ireland in Dayton." The British Government, which is a great advocate of Dayton when Mostar and Bosnia are concerned, has made a great mistake by refusing the Irish proposal that a Dayton-style conference should be organised to deal with the Irish issue, Freundlich contends. The editorial gives a brief summary of the centuries-old Irish struggle for independence and the problem of Anglican settlers in northern Ireland, which remained a part of Britain after independence. "Croatia cannot watch unruffled as another war is being waged between the Irish and the British (...) Three years ago, Britain decided to participate in the international effort to bring peace to Bosnia-Herzegovina by deploying a third of its armed forces in that country. And now war is kindled in their own country. Croatia should now return Britain's care and assistance," Freundlich writes. "If it is necessary to keep peace between the British and the Irish by force, Croatia should not turn a deaf ear to a situation which is like to what she has been through herself. Croatia should not shun such an effort. It is unbearable to watch frightened people and children, threatened by a war which began many centuries ago," Freundlich concludes. Alexander Milosevic discusses the work of the International War Crimes Tribunal, in a comment piece headlined "All Roads Lead to the Hague." The paper runs an interview with the Bishop of Banja Luka, Franjo Komarica. VECERNJI LIST also devotes the front page to Minister Kinkel's visit to Zagreb. The editorial, by Visnja Staresina, speculates on the contents of the archives of the extinct Conference on Former Yugoslavia" which are to be revealed in twenty years. The article is headlined "Archives Without Truth?" The paper covers the upper house session under the headline "Debate on Denationalisation." The paper extensively covers Minister Susak's visit to Washington, where he met his US counterpart William Perry. (hina) jn as 141202 MET feb 96