PRESIDENT TUDJMAN RECEIVES OSCE SPECIAL ENVOY GYARMATI

ZAGREB, Dec 14 (Hina) - Croatian President Franjo Tudjman today received a OSCE (Organisation on Security and Cooperation in Europe) Presidency special envoy, Hungary's Istvan Gyarmati, who is in Croatia on a fact-finding mission. The talks focused on the last OSCE summit in Budapest and relations within the OSCE. President Tudjman said Mr. Gyarmati could count on his personal assistance and Croatia's wholehearted support in his mission. The President's chief-of-staff Hrvoje Sarinic earlier met Gyarmati to discuss the crisis in Bosnia and the implementation of the Economic Agreement with Knin Serbs. Gyarmati said his mission was aimed at obtaining information on the situation in western Bosnia and the possibilities for an integral resolution of the crisis. Sarinic said Croatia was interested in pursuing the process of normalising Croat-Serb relations and insisted that the Economic Agreement with Knin Serbs be implemented. Croatia demanded the consistent enforcement of the Belgrade sanctions regime until the UN Protected Areas were fully reintegrated into Croatia. The talks supported the Contact Group Plan for Bosnia and reaffirmed the importance of mutual recognition of countries emerging from the former Yugoslavia, within their internatinally recognised borders. (hina) jn as sd 141944 MET dec 94