SARINIC AND STOLTENBERG MEET IN ZAGREB - STATEMENT

ZAGREB, April 4 (Hina) - The Croatian President's Chief of Staff, Hrvoje Sarinic, today received in the Presidential Palace in Zagreb the Co-Chairman of the Steering Committee of the Geneva Conference, Thorvald Stoltenberg, a Presidential Office statement said. Also present were Presidential Foreign Policy Adviser Zeljko Matic, Ambassador to the Geneva Conference Kai Eide and Sarinic's aide, Vesna Skare Ozbolt. They discussed modalities of implementing UN Security Council resolution 981 as part of regular consultations preceeding a report Stoltenberg was to submit to UN Secreatary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali. Stoltenberg informed Sarinic of his talks in Belgrade with Serbian President Slbodan Milosevic and Croatian Serb negotiator Borislav Mikelic. Today's talks also focused on the continuation of the peace process and analyzed the subjects which Stoltenberg would include in his report to the UN Secretary General, before passing decisions on the implementation of resolution 981, the statement concluded. (hina) vm 041948 MET apr 95