CHURKIN TALKS WITH MARTIC AND KARADZIC IN BELGRADE

BELGRADE, Mar 16 (Hina) - According to Radio Beograd, Russian special envoy Vitalij Churkin spoke today in Belgrade separately with "president" of the self-proclaimed Serb republic in Croatia Milan Martic and the Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic. After the talk with Milan Martic, Churkin said a meeting between Serb representatives from UNPAs and regular Croatian authorities was announced for March 22 in Zagreb, "agreed on the Russian initiative". Radio Beograd quoted Churkin's statement in which he said that "it is expected that an agreement will be achieved on the cessation of all armed and other hostilities". "America is more engaged on the Croat-Muslim, and we would engage on the Croat-Serb agreement", said Churkin stressing that Moscow and Washington informed each other regularly on their efforts in the territory of the former Yugoslavia, Radio Beograd reported. Churkin announced he was leaving for Washington tomorrow, the source said. 161945 MET mar 94