Jan 11 (AFP -NT) - US President Bill Clinton will visit the main US military rear base in Hungary Saturday afternoon and will meet with top government officials, a defense ministry spokesman said Thursday. Clinton would arrive at the southern Taszar military airbase from the Bosnian city of Tuzla and would travel on to the Croatian capital Zagreb after an up to three-hour visit. The US President is due to briefly meet Hungarian President Arpad Goncz, Prime Minister Gyula Horn, Foreign Minister Laszlo Kovacs and Defense Minister Gyorgy Keleti in Taszar. About half of the troops are part of NATO's Implementation Force (IFOR) while the other half belongs to a supply contingent, to be boosted to 7,000 to serve the 20,000-strong US IFOR contingent in Tuzla. The White House said that in addition to Bosnia, Hungary and Croatia, Clinton would also stop in Italy during his brief weekend trip to the region. AFP /AA1234/111116 GMT JAN 96

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