FRENCH AMBASSADOR TO CROATIA VISITS ZADAR COUNTY

ZADAR, March 6 (Hina) - Zadar-Knin County Prefect Sime Prtenjaca today received French Ambassador to Croatia, Jean Jacques Gaillard. Prtenjaca told Gaillard that Serb aggressors occupied 75 percent of the Zadar-Knin County's territory, and had destroyed 64 villages with Croat majority. Furthermore, 37 schools, 54 churches and dozen Catholic cemeteries in those villages were also devastated. Before the war 57 percent of the County inhabitants had been Croats, 38 percent Serbs and the rest had been other nationalities, Prtenjaca said. Gaillard said that all should persist in seeking the peaceful solution to the problem of Croatia's occupied territories. In this regard French Foreign Minister, Allan Juppe, had proposed an initiative for a new international conference on former Yugoslavia, Gaillard said. He added that the initiative included Belgrade's recognition of Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina as well as Croatia's acceptance of the Contact Group Z-4 Plan. Gaillard believed that this paved the way to the peaceful solution. (Hina) mar rv mms 061246 MET mar 95