STATEMENT BY CROATIAN PRESIDENT IN GENEVA

ZAGREB, Dec 21 (Hina) - Croatian President Franjo Tudjman told Croatian TV in Geneva on Tuesday evening that "the talks with the co-chairmen of the Conference revolved around yet undefined issues concerning the constitutional arrangement of the Union of Bosnia- Herzegovina ahead of tomorrow's meeting." The Co-Chairmen of the Peace Conference on former Yugoslavia, David Owen and Thorvald Stoltenberg, organized talks with the Croatian, Serbian and Bosnian presidents ahead of tomorrow's meeting with European Union foreign ministers in Brussels in a bid to reach a pre-Christmas peace accord. The talks with Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic centred on "how to draw territorial boundaries between the Republics within the Union," said President Tudjman. "Following the long and strenuous talks we have agreed that the Moslem republic should be granted a third of territory, provided that the final delimitation of the republics includes 17.5 percent of territory for the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia," said President Tudjman. "The agreement we have reached today on territorial delimitation creates preconditions for the normalization of relations among the three sides in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and it is also important for the international community," concluded the Croatian president. 212204 MET dec 93