PRESIDENT TUDJMAN RECEIVES OTTO VON HABSBURG

ZAGREB, Nov 13 (Hina) - The President of the Republic of Croatia, Dr. Franjo Tudjman, received Friday evening the Chairman of the Pan-European Union and a member of the European Parliament, Otto von Habsburg, stated the Presidential Office last night. The Croatian President informed his guests of the peace initiative he had recently undertaken in order a solution to the crisis on the area of the former Yugoslavia could be found as soon as possible and that a lasting peace might be established as well. President Tudjman also informed of encouraging results of the Croatian Government's programme on stabilization in Croatia. Mr. Otto von Habsburg said that he would continue with his support to the legitimate requests of Croatia that the constitutional and legal order of the Republic of Croatia be established on its entire territory. He warned that certain parts of the European media were trying to make even more difficult the current situation in Croatia, since some international factors were not in favour of the development of Croatia as an independent state. 131028 MET nov 93