CROATIA'S GRANIC HAILS LONDON CONFERENCE

LONDON, Dec 5 (Hina) - After the London conference on implementing the peace agreement in Bosnia-Herzegovina ended, Croatian Foreign Minister Mate Granic said that despite arrests in the implementation of the Dayton Agreement last year, significant progress had been made. #L# "It is clear that a lot remains to be dome in all fields (starting) from the creation of authority after elections and in line with their results on the level of Bosnia-Herzegovina and on the level of the Bosnian Federation," Granic said after the two-day conference in London. He added that a lot still needed to be done as regarded the return of refugees, freedom of movement and cooperation with the International Crimes Tribunal in The Hague. "The most important issue is that there were no pressures exerted on Croatia during the whole London conference. On the contrary, Croatia's role was hailed," Granic said. He stressed that Croatia had received no pressure as regards the European Union's regional approach. Granic stressed that countries, signatories of the Dayton Agreement, had a special role in the implementation of the Agreement, but that this did not oblige them to a regional concept. Granic is to return to Zagreb on Thursday evening. (hina) lm 051901 MET dec 96