CROATIA-UNPA SERBS DRAFT AGREEMENT TO BE RELEASED LATER TODAY

ZAGREB, Nov 16 (Hina) - Croatian President Franjo Tudjman today received the Co-Chairmen of the Geneva Conference steering committee, Lord David Owen and Thorvald Stoltenberg, US Ambassador Peter Galbraith, Russian Ambassador Leonid Kerestedjiantz and EU Ambassadors Gert Ahrens and Kai Eide, a Presidential Office statement said. Tudjman was given proposals on the continuation of talks towards an agreement between the Croatian government and Serb representatives from occupied Croatian territories. A draft agreement, conceived in the spirit of UN Security Council resolutions, would be released later today, Owen said. Owen added that chief Serb negotiator Borislav Mikelic would be given a copy of the draft in Belgrade, the statement said. Galbraith said after the meeting the United States was active in the so-called Z-4 process from its beginning which had evolved from a cease-fire as the first stage. We regard economic talks as the second stage. This is a three-stage process aimed at reintegrating the UNPAs into Croatia, in the context of UN Security Council decisions and the Vance plan, Galbraith said. The Croatian side was represented by: the head of the Presidential Office and chief negotiator with with local Serb authorities, Hrvoje Sarinic; the head of the Presidential Military Cabinet, Lt. Gen. Zvonimir Cervenko; Foreign Policy Adviser Zeljko Matic; and Internal Policy Adviser Ivic Pasalic. (hina) mm sd vm 161148 MET nov 94