CROATIAN AND RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTERS MEET IN LONDON

LONDON, Dec 5 (Hina) - Croatian Foreign Minister Mate Granic met his Russian counterpart Yevgeni Primakov in London on Thursday where they were attending a conference on the peace process in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The two ministers discussed the peaceful reintegration of the UN-administered Danube river region into Croatia, stressing the importance of Tuesday's visit to Vukovar by Croatian President Franjo Tudjman, sources close to the Croatian delegation said. Russia confirmed its interest in a balanced involvement in the area of former Yugoslavia, and both countries supported the implementation of the Dayton and Washington agreements in Bosnia- Herzegovina. They said that attention should be paid to relations between the two entities and their relations with the central government. Granic and Primakov said that the current political relations between the two countries enabled further improvement of economic and political cooperation. Primakov accepted Granic's invitation to visit Croatia next year. (hina) vm 051316 MET dec 96