DUBROVNIK, July 11 (Hina) - U.S. Trade Secretary Mickey Kantor on
Thursday held separate talks with premiers Zlatko Matesa of Croatia
and Hasan Muratovic of Bosnia-Herzegovina in Dubrovnik, south
Croatia, followed by a joint meeting of delegations from the U.S.,
Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina.
After the meeting, Matesa, Muratovic and the manager of the
U.S. Trade and Development Agency, Joe Grandmaison, signed a
Memorandum on Understanding for Investments in the Reconstruction
and Development of the Ploce Port, in the amount of USD 500,000.
Matesa, Muratovic and Kantor signed a Memorandum on
Understanding on Economic Reconstruction and Development of
Infrastructure Objects in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Kantor said the memorandums symbolized the real purpose of
this mission, which was the promotion of economic relations between
the U.S., Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina.
The U.S. trade and economic strategy was based on the
normalization of trade relations between Croatia and Bosnia-
Herzegovina, on giving the U.S. aid programme to Bosnia a trade
dimension, on strengthening U.S. business interests and on
expanding the trade capacities of this area, Kantor said.
He said he hoped that Dubrovnik, Sarajevo, Tuzla and Zagreb
would become important economy and trade centres, bringing
prosperity to this area.
Muratovic said the signing of the documents was of the utmost
importance for further relations between Croatia and Bosnia-
Herzegovina as well as between western and central Europe, to which
Bosnia will be connected this way.
Matesa also expressed gratitude to U.S. President Bill Clinton
and the U.S. Administration for their "courage to crucially
influence the peace process and peace in this area."
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