CRO FOREIGN MINISTER RECEIVES U.S. AMBASSADOR

ZAGREB, Sept 14 (Hina) - Croatian Foreign Minister Mate Granic on Saturday received U.S. Ambassador to Croatia Peter Galbraith and expressed deep regret on the part of the Croatian government regarding the International Criminal Tribunal's evaluation that the Rajic (Bosnian Croat indited of war crimes) case was about a conflict of international character in which Croatia was involved too, the Croatian Foreign Ministry said in a statement. It was Croatia that, on the basis of the 1992 Agreement on Friendship and Cooperation, helped Bosnia-Herzegovina most during the war in defending itself from the aggression, Granic said and added that, with the Washington and Split Declaration, it created preconditions to end the long-standing conflict and for the signing of the Dayton Agreement. Today's talks also focused on the peaceful reintegration of the Croatian Danubian area and the course of elections in Bosnia- Herzegovina, the statement concluded. (hina) ha 141921 MET sep 96