CROAT PREMIER'S SPEECH AT SESSION OF CENTRAL EUROPEAN INITIATIVE

TRIESTE, July 16 (Hina) - The Republic of Croatia gives strategic priority to the cooperation with the countries-members of the Central European Initiative, said Croatia's Premier Nikica Valentic at today's session of premiers of the Central European Initiative's countries in Trieste. He said that Croatia regarded that proposals of the five- power "contact group" for Bosnia-Herzegovina might be the basis for lasting solutions. "An overall solution, requires that the crises in Croatia and B-H should be solved at the same time," Premier Valentic stressed. He pointed out that in its development Croatia relied on the cooperation with neighbouring countries, especially with members of the Central European Initiative. Valentic said that within the Central European Initiative Croatia was cooperating in various areas of economy, and added that Croatia would continue preparations for forming the administrative centre of tourism and culture in the Croatian town of Rovinj. He expressed hopes that Croatia might be soon included in projects on the traffic corridors between the Baltic and the Adriatic Sea, and the Adriatic and the Black Sea. 161822 MET jul 94