CROATIA'S MINISTER OF TRANSPORT MEETS HIS HUNGARIAN COUNTERPART IN

IN $ BUDAPEST BUDAPEST, Nov 15 (Hina) - Croatia's Minister of maritime affairs, transport and communications, Zeljko Luzavec, Friday held talks with his Hungarian counterpart Karoly Lotz, on traffic connections between the two countries. After the talks, Croatia's Luzavec said they had agreed on signing a treaty on combined transport next week in the Hungarian capital. An agreement was being prepared on a location where the Hungarian motorway Budapest-Leteny section and the Croatian motorway Rijeka-Zagreb-Gorican section can be linked at Croatian- Hungarian border. This agreement was very important, as the Rijeka- Zagreb-Budapest motorway is part of the Baltic-Adriatic road direction, according to Luzavec. The two ministers agreed on restoring soon train services between the Hungarian border and the Croatian town of Beli Manastir in Baranja (still under the UN transitional administration), as both Croatian and Hungarian sides are ready to reopen the railway road in question. It is expected only from the U.N. Transitional Administrator Jacques Klein to ensure conditions for unimpeded traffic. Besides Minister Luzavec, his assistant for train traffic Dragutin Subat and the secretary of the Ministry of maritime affairs, transport and communications, Mijo Petek attended that talks. (hina) jn mš 151657 MET nov 96