CROATIA IS PREPARING AGREEMENT ON SPECIAL RELATIONS WITH

( Vidi vijest: 5282 ) ZAGREB, 23 Oct (Hina) - Croatia is preparing an agreement on special relations with the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina, and it will give it proposals concerning the solution of the issue of Ploce port and passage through Neum, Croatia's Foreign Minister Mate Granic said following Thursday's Government session. Croatian proposals will be in the spirit of the Washington and Dayton agreements, Granic added. The preparation of the agreement on special relations with the Federation was announced in the Split Declaration signed between the Croatian President Franjo Tudjman and Bosnia's President Alija Izetbegovic, Granic recalled. 'We did not accept the suggestions (on Ploce port) of the American side, which is otherwise welcome and which is an advisory body within the commission which works on solving the question of Ploce and Neum,' Granic said. 'It is important that Croatia is not going to harm its sovereignty by anything,' Granic concluded. (hina) mm rm 231814 MET oct 97