DEPUTY PM RECEIVES BELGIAN DELEGATION

( Editorial: --> 7698 ) ZAGREB, July 14 (Hina)- Deputy PM Ljerka Mintas-Hodak, the Government minister in charge of European integrations, received on Tuesday a Belgian delegation consisting of the Belgian ambassador to NATO, Baron Thierry de Gruben, ambassador Jean de Ruyt, the and the political director at the Belgian Foreign Ministry Robert Devries, deputy to the Belgian ambassador to NATO and special envoy in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The meeting was also attended by the Belgian ambassador to Croatia, Frans Hintjens. The agenda included the Government's return plan and the Government's activities for Croatia's gradual integration into European mechanisms, establishment of institutional relations with the European Union and training of experts. During the meeting it was stressed that safety and other conditions should be created for the return of Croats to BH, both into central Bosnia and to the territory of Republika srpska, the Government's public information office said. (Hina) as mr 142121 MET jul 98