CRO FOREIGN MINISTER RECEIVES SWEDISH AMBASSADOR

ZAGREB, August 6 (Hina) - Croatian Foreign Minister Mate Granic on Tuesday received the incoming president of the Joint Implementation Committee for Human Rights within the UNTAES Civil Administration, Swedish Ambassador Henrik Amneus, the Croatian Foreign Ministry said in a statement. Granic and Amneus discussed the course of the peaceful reintegration of eastern Slavonia, Baranja and western Srijem and the constitutional and legal system of the Republic of Croatia. Croatia wanted the process to be completed in the agreed time, Granic said, adding that any slowing down would question the implementation of the whole peace process. Croatia guaranteed the respect of human and ethnic minority rights to local inhabitants of eastern Slavonia, Baranja and western Srijem in accordance with west-European norms and standards, the Croatian Foreign Minister concluded. (hina) ha 061543 MET aug 96