A BRIEF LOOK AT CROATIAN PRESS ON MONDAY

ZAGREB, Feb 6 (Hina) - Today's VJESNIK carried a front-page article under the headline "Belgrade Must Recognize Zagreb and Sarajevo" about yesterday's Munich talks on the Federation of Bosnia- Herzegovina. VJESNIK said the Munich meeting between the Bosnia- Herzegovina's and Croatia's high officials and representatives of the Five-Nation Contact Group had taken place within the annual Munich Security Conference. The daily underlined that Kinkel's latest initiative concerned Milosevic's re involvement in the peace process, so that he should meet President Tudjman and Izetbegovic under the condition that the so-called Federal Republic of Yugoslavia previously recognized Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina within their UN-enshrined borders. VJESNIK published an interview with Mirko Valentic, the director of the Zagreb-based institute for contemporary history, under the headline " Serbs in Croatia - Trojan Horse of 'A Greater Serbia'". Valentic said Croatian Serbs should be told clearly that they had been used as 'the Trojan horse' by the Belgrade 'circles' that opted for a greater Serbia, for more than a hundred years. Croatian Serbs had been once exploited under the motto that they were shields of the Serb Orthodox Christianity, and then that they protected the Serb tradition, and since WW II they should assume a role of the historical 'guardians' of Yugoslavia, according to M. Valentic. VJESNIK interviewed France's Ambassador in Zagreb, Jean Jacques Gaillarde, under the headline "There is No 'Take It or Leave It' For the Z-4 Plan". French Ambassador said the Knin Serbs had not accepted even the act of being delivered the plan devised by the Z-4 Group, and they had not considered the contents of the plan either. However, French Ambassador believed that the Z-4 plan was still on the negotiating table. He hoped that the negotiations could resume on the grounds of the plan in coming weeks. The other Zagreb-based daily, VECERNJI LIST, also carried a report on the Munich talks on strengthening the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina. The report, headlined "A Plan For Faster Establishment of the Federation", referred to the document with nine items, which provided for an international arbitrator for the implementation of the Washington Accords and the Vienna agreement. Reporting about the week-end Munich Security Conference, within which the talks on strengthening Bosnian Federations had been held, VECERNJI LIST correspondent Nenad Ivankovic, said that the Conference revolved around the two themes. One of them was the lessons NATO should learn from its "unsuccessful' engagement' in Bosnia, and the other referred to the NATO' expansion toward the East. The daily's commentator, Zeljko Kruselj, dealt with the Yalta Conference. In his commentary concerning the 50th anniversary of the Yalta Conference, Kruselj wrote that by the fall of Communism millions of citizens in eastern countries could find the joy in the fact that the Yalta Conference had been sent to a lumber-room of history. However, its evil ghost seemed to be destined to trade with the fate of small peoples. Croatian Finance Minister, Bozo Prka, said in his interview with the daily that 'taxes would be more and more a theme that attracted the public's attention. "Each taxpayer wants to know where his money is spent. I am aware that I cannot be a beloved person while I am the Finance Minister. But I will not give up," Prka said. (hina) mms 061059 MET feb 95