MESIC RECEIVES SERBIAN JOURNALISTS

ZAGREB, Feb 8 (Hina) - Stipe Mesic, President of the Croatian Parliament, received on Tuesday a group of journalists from Serbia currently on a visit to Croatia. Stressing that he had a chance to meet most of them before, Mesic said that they were familiar with the fact that Croatian proposals for solving the Yugoslav crisis even before the war had been rejected. He said that both Croats and Serbs paid a price for this rejection, as well as the Muslims after the outbreak of war in Bosnia. The reception was attended by Slavko Degoricija, member of the Committee for Normalizing Croatian-Serbian Relations. He said that Serbs in Croatia would have the highest degree of minority rights, and stressed that they were returning to Croatia while not a single Croat could return to the UNPAs. The parents of missing persons from Vukovar joined the meeting at its end. Serbian journalists said that the list of missing persons from Vukovar would be distributed to humanitarian organizations in Serbia. 082114 MET feb 94