A BRIEF LOOK AT CROATIAN PRESS ON THURSDAY, JUNE 2

ZAGREB, June 2 (Hina) - Reporting on unsuccessful talks in the Croatian Parliament, Aleksa Crnjakovic says in today's VJESNIK that "the more the crisis deepens, the less will the ruling HDZ party be ready to give in, considering a blow it suffered and considering the majority it has." Vjesnik brings a letter signed by leader of the recently established Croatian Independent Democrats (HND) party Stjepan Mesic in reply to allegations about Mesic and Manolic's second letter to the United States Congress made by Deputy Foreign Minister Ivo Sanader at a press conference last week. Sanader then said that the letter did not bear a personal signature, but that such unsigned letters were common in the US Congress. In his reply, Mesic said the HDZ had falsfied the letter, that it had been sent and published by state officials, and that "HDZ secretary-general Jure Radic held the falsified letter in his hand before it was forwarded to the United States." The HND demands that the Croatian Parliament set up a commission to investigate the case and inform Parliament and the public about it. "New topic in new circumstances" says the headline of an article by Aleksandar Milosevic on the ministerial conference of non-aligned countries in Cairo. "By not inviting the so-called Yugoslavia to the conference, the Non-Alignment Movement took a clear stand towards the situation in former Yugoslavia," says the article. The paper also brings an interview with Jean-Jacques Oechslin, head of the International Employers' Organization and the International Labour Organization, currently on a visit to Croatia. Reporting on the continuation of talks between the HDZ and parliamentary opposition parties, another Zagreb-based daily newspaper, VECERNJI LIST, says it has found out that the opposition parties have sought certain assurances for the election of their deputy speaker of Parliament as well as for a confidence vote in Parliament speaker Nedjeljko Mihanovic. The paper noted that Social Liberal party leader Drazen Budisa had been placed under police protection because of threats had had been exposed to. In the article headlined "How to avoid Serbian and pro-Serbian imputations," Visnja Staresina comments on the Geneva talks on cessation of hostilities in Bosnia-Herzegovina. She says that the cessation of hostilities would not suit the Moslem-Croat federation as it would freeze the status quo, reward Serb conquests and make it possible for the Serbs to stall peace talks. "They can learn a lot on the example of Croatian occupied territories what problems can bring a permanent truce under international supervision if it is not linked with a precise political solution and a deadline for its implementation," Staresina says. 021240 MET jun 94