PRESIDENT TUDJMAN LEAVES FOR GERMANY

ZAGREB, May 16 (Hina) - Croatian President Franjo Tudjman this morning left on a working visit to Bonn at the invitation of the German Federal Chancellor, Helmut Kohl. President Tudjman is also to meet the German Foreign Minister, Klaus Kinkel. "I expect the relations between the two countries, good since the establishment of independent Croatia, to deepen," President Tudjman told reporters before takeoff. Asked if the talks would deal with a recent Croatian police action in western Slavonia, President Tudjman said: "Not only the German public, the world public has accepted the liberation of Croatia's occupied areas as a normal event. The talks will therefore focus on other issues. I am going to encourage Germany to get involved, because there is an idea that the Split- Knin-Zagreb-Europe railway line should be opened under European Union auspices." (hina) mm as 161059 MET may 95