$ NEW YORK, Sept 26 (Hina) - Croatian Foreign Minister Mate Granic held separate talks with German, French and U.S. foreign ministers in New York on Thursday.
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NEW YORK, Sept 26 (Hina) - Croatian Foreign Minister Mate Granic
held separate talks with German, French and U.S. foreign ministers
in New York on Thursday. #L#
German Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel and French Foreign
Minister Herve de Charette supported Croatia's accession into the
Council of Europe.
Kinkel said that Germany supported both Croatia's accession
into the PHARE programme and its trade agreement with the European
Union.
He accepted Granic's invitation to visit Croatia by the end of
the year.
As regarded the mandate of the UN Transitional Administration
for Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Srijem, U.S. State
Secretary Warren Christopher had reiterated President Clinton's
Administration's stance that the mandate needed to be extended for
six months, Granic said.
Croatia held that there was no reason for the mandate to be
extended, Granic said, adding that this stance had been conveyed to
the American side and the French and German foreign ministers.
All three meetings focused on the situation in Bosnia-
Herzegovina and the participants in the talks stressed that joint
bodies of power in Bosnia had to be established as soon as
possible.
Assistant U.S. Secretary of State John Kornblum said that
during talks with Granic, Christopher had especially stressed that
full cooperation of Bosnian Croats needed to be ensured in the
establishment of joint structures in the Bosnian Federation.
Christopher also held talks with Bosnian President Alija
Izetbegovic and Yugoslav Foreign Minister Milan Milutinovic, during
which he reiterated the need for the establishment of joint bodies
of power in Bosnia as soon as possible, and stressed the need for
cooperation with the International Crimes Tribunal in the Hague.
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