CROATIAN FOREIGN MINISTER ARRIVES IN SARAJEVO

SARAJEVO, Feb 16 (Hina) - Croatian Vice Premier and Foreign Minister Mate Granic arrived in Sarajevo around 9 am Friday. Granic was welcomed by the Bosnian Foreign Minister Jadranko Prlic and Croatian Embassy officials in Sarajevo. After the talks in the Bosnian Foreign Ministry are over, the Croatian Foreign Minister will meet Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic. Granic is also to attend a meeting between the President and the Vice President of the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kresimir Zubak and Ejup Ganic respectively and Mostar Mayors Safet Orucevic and Mijo Brajkovic. It is expected that the EU Administrator of Mostar, Hans Koschnik, will join the meeting as well. The purpose of Granic's visit to Sarajevo is to help overcome difficulties which resulted from the decision of EU Administrator of Mostar Hans Koschnik on the organisation of the city as well as to discuss the functioning of the Federation as a whole and Croat- Bosniac relations. (hina0 rm jn 161047 MET feb 96