CROATIAN AMBASSADOR BEKIC AT CSCE CONFERENCE IN TASHKENT

TASHKENT, Oct 2 (Hina) - Uzbekistan's Foreign Minister Asim Kamilov yesterday received Ambassador Darko Bekic, the head of a Croatian delegation at a regional session of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) in the Uzbek capital of Tashkent. Uzbek Foreign Minister and Croatian Ambassador Darko Bekic talked about the bilateral relations as well as the multilateral cooperation among countries in former Union of Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR) and former Yugoslavia. At the talks the two interlocutors assessed that there were great possibilities for improving the economic cooperation between Croatia and Uzbekistan, the biggest cotton exporter in the world this year. Croatian Ambassador yesterday held talks with Tadzhikstan's Deputy Foreign Minister, Tajjudin Mardonov. Their talks revolved around establishing better bilateral relations and political cooperation. During the CSCE regional conference in Tashkent Ambassador Bekic met chief of delegations of other three central Asian countries of Kirghizia, Kazakhstan, and Turkmenia. At the talks Croatian Ambassador and his interlocutors discussed possibilities of establishing diplomatic relations and mutual support at the current UN General Assembly session and the CSCE forthcoming sessions as well. (hina) mm 021420 MET oct 94