MACEDONIAN DELEGATION VISITS CROATIA

ZAGREB, June 14 (Hina) - A high Macedonian delegation, headed by Vice Premier Zlatka Popovska and Culture Minister Slobodan Unkovski, on Saturday visited Zagreb, the Croatian Culture Ministry said in a statement. Upon receiving the guests at Zagreb's airport, Croatian Culture Minister Bozo Biskupic expressed satisfaction with the visit and the overall political, economic and especially cultural relations between the two countries. He hoped that Croatia and Macedonia, two sovereign and independent states, would continue to develop such good relations. Macedonia's vice premier hoped she would visit Croatia more often and expressed interest for a more successful and better economic cooperation. Croatia's culture minister invited his Macedonian counterpart to attend the opening of a summer festival in the south Croatian port of Dubrovnik. Unkovski accepted. As part of the visit to Croatia, the Macedonian delegation also visited a museum and a gallery in Velika Gorica, near Zagreb, which hosts an exhibition by Croatian artist Josip Boteri Dini, the statement by the Croatian Culture Ministry concluded. (hina) ha 142005 MET jun 97