SARAJEVO & BELGRADE WANT TO RESTORE ECONOMIC RELATIONS

SARAJEVO, August 26 (Hina) - A government delegation of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) headed by vice-president Nikola Sainovic on Monday visited Sarajevo in an attempt to restore talks which would lead to the establishment of economic cooperation between FRY and Bosnia-Herzegovina (BH). Sainovic and representatives of the Yugoslav Chamber of Commerce, led by its president Vlajko Stoiljkovic, were received by Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic. State media in Sarajevo pointed out that the delegation negotiated on economic, and not political, relations between the two countries. Yugoslav officials also talked with vice-president of the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina Ejup Ganic and Bosnian Premier Hasan Muratovic. According to Muratovic, it had been agreed that experts would soon meet and determine ways of payment between the two countries, determine border crossings and ways of transporting goods and passengers and to fully respect laws valid in both BH and FRY as regarded economic cooperation. Muratovic said that economic relations must be restored as soon as possible since that would lead to the restoring of other relations as well. The development of economic relations would be the best guarantor of the Dayton Agreement, said Sainovic. Also taking part in today's talks was U.S. Ambassador to BH John Menzies, who said that his government welcomed the considerable progress in the talks between Belgrade and Sarajevo and that it would help the cooperation to continue. (hina) ha jn 261921 MET aug 96