CROATIAN PREMIER NAMES NEW MINISTERS

ZAGREB, Jan 27 (Hina) - Croatian Prime Minister Nikica Valentic at a press conference this morning named five new ministers and a deputy culture minister. Zagreb County prefect Ivica Gazi is the new Agriculture and Forestry Minister while Deputy Labour and Social Welfare Minister now becomes Labour and Social Welfare Minister. Zagreb Deputy Mazor Marina Matulovic-Dropulic has been named the new Town Planning, Construction and Housing Minister while the president of the Croatian Privitisation Fund, Ivan Penic, moves on as Privatisation Minister. The head of the Government Office for Displaced People and Refugees, Adalbert Rebic, now becomes a Minister without a portfolio. And Zagreb attorney Mira Crnja is the new deputy Culture Minister. Valentic said Croatian President Franjo Tudjman had accepted his newly proposed ministerial appointments but Parliament was yet to make the final decision. (hina) mar sd vm 271245 MET jan 95