PRESIDENT TUDJMAN MEETS U.S. ENVOY RADMAN

ZAGREB, 17 (Hina) - The President of the Republic of Croatia, Dr. Franjo Tudjman, received today American ambassador, Charles Radman, the U.S. President's special envoy at the Conference on the Former Yugoslavia, accompanied by the U.S. Ambassador to Croatia, Peter Galbraith, according to a statement issued this evening by the Presidential Office of the Republic of Croatia. They discussed the current situation in connection with the crisis in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Ambassador Radman emphasized determination of the U.S.A. as well as of NATO to persist in the removal of the heavy weaponry from the surroundings of Sarajevo. New proposals on the constitution of B-H with the emphasis on the maintaining national and economic interest of the Croatian people in that state were considered at this meeting. As regards aspirations to achieve as soon as possible a just and lasting peace, Radman expressed the readiness of the U.S.A. to be engaged more that before in this field. Assessing positively all the proposals and peace initiatives made so far by President Tudjman, ambassador Radman stressed the necessity of such constructive role of Croatia in the next period of peace process. President Tudjman reiterated the main guidelines of Croatia's politics directed at achieving a just peace, in which the preservation of the Croatian people in Bosnia-Herzegovina could not be endangered, as it was the case in the last fifty years. He also reiterated resolution of the Croatian authorities to contribute, directly as well as by exerting influence on the Bosnian Croats, to the establishment of peace on those territories, according to the statement. 172014 MET feb 94