CROATIAN DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER MEETS GREEK CULTURE MINISTER

ATHENS/ZAGREB, March 11 (Hina) - Croatia's Deputy Foreign Minister, Ivo Sanader, today in Athens met the Greek Minister of Culture, Thanos Mikroutsikos, the Croatian Foreign Ministry said in a statement. Also present were the Croatian Ambassador to Athens, Ivica Mastruko, and the Greek Ambassador to Zagreb, Konstantinos Yerokostopoulos. The meeting came after successful talks at the Greek Foreign Ministry where the two countries signed a number of bilateral agreements, inlcuding the agreement on cooperation in education, culture and science. The two ministers said they were pleased that the agreement was signed, stressing the need for its implementation as soon as possible. Greece invited Croatia to participate in a European Union project called "Salonika - Cultural Metropolis of Europe in 1997." Agreement was reached on establishing a joint committee which would work out a program for cultural cooperation between the two countries. (hina) vm 111244 MET mar 95