HRVOJE SARINIC SIGNS ECONOMIC AGREEMENT

ZAGREB, Dec 2 (Hina) - Head of the Croatian Government delegation for talks with representatives of Serbs from occupied Croatian areas (UNPAs), Hrvoje Sarinic, signed an economic agreement at the UN Protection Force (UNPROFOR) headquarters in Zagreb at about 9.00hrs this morning. The economic agreement between the Croatian Government and representatives of Serbs from UNPAs will be delivered to Knin where Borislav Mikelic should sign it at 13.00hrs on behalf of the Serb side. The agreement deals with issues on water supplies, electricity, opening the Zagreb-Belgrade motorway and the Adriatic pipe-line. Immediately after the signing Sarinic said the agreement "protected all vital interests of the Republic of Croatia" and that "it did not endanger in any way the Croatian sovereignty in the occupied areas". The agreement was also signed by the International Conference on the Former Yugoslavia (ICFY) Co-Chairmen, David Owen and Thorvald Stoltenberg, U.N. Commander General Pierre Peeters, European Union Monitor Mission Chief in the former Yugoslavia Joachim-Paul von Stuelpnagel, and U.S. and Russian ambassadors to Croatia Peter Galbraith and Leonid Kerestedziyanc. (hina) mm ks mar 021056 MET dec 94