CROATIAN FOREIGN MINISTER RECEIVES EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT DELEGATION

ZAGREB, June 3 (Hina) - Croatian Foreign Minister Mate Granic on Monday received a European Parliament delegation led by the president of the Foreign Relations Committee, Jose Maria Mendiluce, a Foreign Ministry statement said. Granic informed the European parliamentarians about results of Sunday's talks in Geneva. He stressed the support of all participants in the day-long meeting for continuation of the peaceful reintegration of the remaining occupied areas of eastern Croatia. Croatia reiterated its commitment to meet the highest international standards of human and minority rights in the areas of Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Srijem and elsewhere in the country, he said. Granic stressed that none of the participants in the Geneva talks had supported demands by local Serb authorities in the occupied areas for autonomy. In talks with representatives of Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Bosnian Croat-Moslem Federation important agreements were reached on further steps to strengthen the Federation, Granic said, emphasizing an agreement on a Federation Armed Forces Law. Speaking of Croatian priorities, Granic reiterated Croatia's orientation towards European integrations and full membership in the Council of Europe. Croatia wanted an open dialogue with the Council of Europe and was willing to respect European standards, but it did not want its membership to depend on other countries that had emerged in the area of the former Yugoslavia, Granic said. (hina) vm jn 031312 MET jun 96