CROATIAN VICE PREMIER MEETS INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS OFFICIALS

ZAGREB, March 15 (Hina) - Croatian Deputy Prime Minister Ivica Kostovic today received the chief of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) mission to former Yugoslavia, Alex Braunwalder, and his aide, Veronique Zurcher. The talks focused on ICRC activities in searching for missing persons and resuming negotiations on prisoner-of-war exchanges. Kostovic asked the delegation to visit certain people held in prison. Kostovic also requested the ICRC to help protect the non-Serb population in occupied Croatian areas and to follow closely the humanitarian situation in the Banja Luka and Prijedor regions of northwestern Bosnia-Herzegovina. Speaking of reunions of families separated by war, Kostovic stressed that people who found refuge in the government-controlled parts of Croatia should also be allowed to visit their relatives in Serb-held areas. (Hina) mar rv vm 152127 MET mar 95