FEDERATION TALKS LED BY BOSNIAN MOSLEMS AND CROATS CONTINUE TODAY

TODAY $ VIENNA, May 8 (Hina) - In the U.S. embassy in Vienna Croat and Moslem-Bosniac delegations continued their talks on the implementation of the Washington agreements just before 11:00 hrs Sunday. The first round of the talks finished on Saturday evening. The negotiators would discuss the ethnic distribution between Moslems and Croats of the key posts in the Federation of B-H as well as an internal division of the Federation into cantons. The negotiations would be led by two expert groups, one of them for political issues and the other for the cantons' boundaries. Croatian foreign minister Mate Granic and Bosnian prime minister Haris Silajdzic are the heads of the Croat and Moslem- Bosniac delegations respectively. Members of the B-H presidency, Nijaz Durakovic and Ivo Komsic, who had arrived in Vienna last night, joint the Bosnian negotiators today, whereas Ejub Ganic, Mariofil Ljubic and Vlado Pandzic are also being expected to come in the Austrian capital to participate in the talks. After yesterday's round of talks Bosnian prime minister Silajdzic said that the talks had been constructive, while Croatian foreign minister Granic expressed hopes that negotiations would successfully finish by Monday. 081219 MET may 94