CROATIAN DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER RETURNS FROM IRAN ( Editorial: --> 0653 )

( Editorial: --> 0653 ) ZAGREB, Nov 13 (Hina) - Croatian Deputy Foreign Minister Ivo Sanader on Thursday returned from a working visit to Iran. During meetings with Iranian Deputy President Hasan Habibi, the co- chairman of the Croatian-Iranian Economy Commission, Road and Transport Minister Mahmud Hojati, and other Iranian officials, Sanader held talks about the continuation of bilateral economic cooperation. The meetings especially focused on the construction of four ships for an Iranian customer in Croatian shipyards, and about the completion of negotiations on agreements on avoiding double taxation and the protection of investments. Sanader informed his hosts about the course of the process of peaceful reintegration of the Croatian Danube river region, normalisation of relations with Yugoslavia and the draft agreement on special relations between Croatia and the Bosnian Federation. As chair-country of the Islamic conference organisation (OIC), Iran invited Croatia to be a guest at the next OIC meeting in Teheran in December. (hina) lm jn 132128 MET nov 97