SLOVENIA'S CONSUL GENERAL VISITS ETHNIC SLOVENES IN PLOCE

PLOCE, March 2 (Hina) - Slovenia's consul general to Split, Aladar Belec, and the president of the Slovene society "Triglav", Bostjan Kordis, on Saturday visited the southern Croatian port town of Ploce where they met members of the Ploce branch of the Triglav society. The society brings together ethnic Slovenes from Ploce, Orebic, Opuzen, Metkovic and other towns and villages in Dubrovnik County and the Neretva river valley. The talks focused on rights of the local Slovene community to Slovene citizenship certificates, passports and other documents and on the preservation and development of the Slovene language, culture and tradion within the Triglav society. The Slovene guests also met Ploce mayor Josko Damic with whom they discussed economic and cultural issues and possibilities of establishing traffic and economic links between Ploce and the Slovene port of Koper. (hina) vm 021646 MET mar 96