CROATIA AND EC SIGN AGREEMENT ON HUMANITARIAN OPERATIONS

ZAGREB, Nov 9 (Hina) - The Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of the Republic of Croatia, Mate Granic, and the Director of the European Community Humanitarian Office (ECHO), Santiago Gomez Reino, met in Zagreb on Tuesday and signed an agreement on cooperation in implementing humanitarian activities between the Croatian Government and the European Community. This is a third agreement of this kind which, after the expiry of the previous one, will regulate ways of implementing humanitarian operations of the European community in Croatia. According to the Agreement, by the end of March 1994 the European Community will dispatch 28,530 tons of aid worth 22 million ECU, that is 26 million dollars, for about 700,000 people in Croatia. Santiago Gomez Reino said that the EC had secured 45 percent of the total of international aid to Yugoslavia, and that after Bosnia, Croatia was the major receiver of aid. Thanking the EC representative, Minister Granic noted that despite great amounts of aid, it was still not enough. 092013 MET nov 93