DAYTON DELEGATION RECEIVED AT CROATIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY

ZAGREB, Dec 7 (Hina) - An aide to the Croatian Foreign Minister, Neven Madey, on Saturday received a delegation of the U.S. city of Dayton, Ohio, led by Mayor Michael Turner. The Croatian official thanked the Dayton delegation for hospitality the city had offered to participants of the peace negotiations held in that city a year ago. He stressed that the Dayton negotiations had given a framework for the Bosnia- Herzegovina peace accords which should be consistently implemented. Mayor Turner conveyed wishes of the Dayton city administration and citizens for establishing long-term friendship with Croatia, and voiced interest in development of economic relations in trade and joint investment. At the Zagreb talks the American delegation proposed that Dayton and the Croatian town of Vukovar become twinned towns. (hina) mš 071033 MET dec 96