CRO AMBASSADOR MEETS US ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE, CONGRESS COM

COM $ MITTEE CHAIRMAN WASHINGTON, March 27 (Hina) - Croatian Ambassador to the United States, Miomir Zuzul, on Tuesday discussed certain aspects of the implementation of the Bosnia peace accord with Assistant US Secretary of State, John Kornblum. The United States expected Croatia to play a positive role in the development of the Bosnian Federation, the Croatian embassy summed up the talks. It was said that facors such as cooperation with the International War Crimes Tribunal and the implementation of the Federation project could affect the good relations between the US and Croatia, the embassy said in a statement. The meeting voiced concern over the postponement of a working celebration of the Federation's second anniversary, which was to take place in Bonn, Germany. Later in the afternoon, Ambassador Zuzul met the chairman of the House of Representatives international relations committee, Benjamin Gilman, with whom he discussed the future of the Croat- Moslem Federation after IFOR's departure. Also discussed was the normalization of relations between Croatia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Gilman was interested in new bills being currently debated in the Croatian Parliament, namely the amendments to the Associations Act, the amendments to the penal code relative to the freedom of the media and the appointment of the Zagreb Mayor. (hina) jn as 271149 MET mar 96