AGRICULTURE MINISTER JANKOVIC ON TODAY'S RALLY OF PEASANTS AND FIS

FIS $ HERMEN ZAGREB, March 27 (Hina) - The Croatian Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, Matej Jankovic, described today's demonstration of Croatian peasants and fishermen as a 'completely usual means of democratic pressure, which in this case had been used by the Opposition which wanted to present itself as peasants' tutor'. Speaking in tonight's news broadcast on Croatian television, Jankovic said: 'The Government will not yield to pressures since it is conscious of all difficulties and is doing all it can to bring things back to normal'. Asked how the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry would react and what the Government would do, Jankovic said that the Government, after it held talks with representatives of peasants, the Peasants' Association and the Croatian Peasants' Party (HSS), only confirmed what it was doing and what it still intended to do. 'Considering the present situation in Croatia, and I also mean the part of the Croatian policy relating to Bosnia-Herzegovina, we have an obligation to act rationally', Jankovic said. Jankovic added that allegations about import and export relations between Croatia and Herzeg-Bosnia were not true. Croatia's export to Herzeg-Bosnia was much bigger than its import from the area. (hina) rm 272131 MET mar 96