SARINIC MEETS CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTER

BEIJING, May 30 (Hina) - Croatian President's Chief-of-staff Hrvoje Sarinic, who is on an official visit to China, talked this afternoon with Chinese Foreign Minister Quichen Quian. Minister Quian expressed his concern over the latest developments in former Yugoslavia, especially in Bosnia- Herzegovina. In an interview to the Croatian news agency Hina, Sarinic said he told Quian that the key to the solution to the crisis in former Yugoslavia was in Belgrade. By prolonging the recognition of states which were established after Yugoslavia's disintegration, Belgrade authorities only fueled extremism of Bosnian and Croatian Serbs. Both officials agreed that the solution to the crisis should be reached by peaceful means. Croatia was not abandoning negotiations as a means to solve the crisis; it was Knin and Belgrade though that did not show any interest in negotiations, Sarinic said and added that Croatia expected from the international community to help revive the negotiation process. Sarinic arrived in Beijing on Monday in capacity of INA (Croatian oil company) Supervisory board President and talked with Dunxin Zhang, the President of SINOCHEM, a company INA has very good business relations with. On that occasion Sarinic and Zhang signed a protocol on further cooperation between the two companies. (hina) jn rm 302043 MET may 95