MINISTER GRANIC MEETS ICRC CHIEF DELEGATE

ZAGREB, March 8 (Hina) - Croatian Foreign Minister, Mate Granic, today recieved the ICRC (International Committee of the Red Cross) chief delegate for western and central Europe and the Balkans, Angel Gnaediger, the Foreign Ministry said. Gnaediger was accompanied by head of the ICRC office in Zagreb, Alex Braunwalder. They discussed ways to speed up the process of looking for missing persons in Croatia. Granic thanked the ICRC for its efforts in looking for missing persons and requested that ICRC President, Cornelio Sommaruga, take an active part in that process. Granic and Gnaediger also discussed the situation in Croatia's occupied area in the wake of the decision to end the UNPROFOR mandate. They stressed the need for resuming talks on the peaceful reintegration of the occupied areas into Croatia's legal system, the Ministry said. (hina) jn as 081939 MET mar 95