BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 5385

ROME, July 21 (Hina) - A Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA)between Croatia and the European Union was technically ratified by theItalian Senate on Tuesday afternoon. The document will be published inthe Official Gazette after it is signed by Italian President CarloAzeglio Ciampi. Croatian Agriculture Minister PetarCobankovic and Bosnian Foreign Trade Minister in Sarajevo on Wednesdaysigned an agreement on veterinary cooperation and an agreement on thejoint financing of maintaining the regional drainage systemKomarna-Neum-Mljet Channel. Croatian Justice Minister Vesna Skare Ozboltand her Bosnian counterpart Slobodan Kovacevic agreed at a meeting onWednesday to sign by the end of the year an agreement regulatingproperty-rights relations between the two countries, the CroatianJustice Ministry said in a statement. The head of the Croatian People's Party (HNS)club od deputies, Dragutin Lesar, on Wednesday called on PrimeMinis