CROATIAN POST WORKERS RELEASED AFTER NIGHT IN SERBIAN JAIL

ZAGREB/BELGRADE, Feb 27 (Hina) - Two Croatian Post (HP) workers were on Wednesday stopped by Serbian customs officials at the Bartovci border crossing and were placed in custody over night, the Croatian Maritime Affairs, Transport and Communications Ministry reported Thursday. #L# The two van drivers were carrying parcels from Belgrade to Slovenia in line with an agreement signed by the Croatian and Serbian posts on the transport of parcels to and from third countries, the ministry's post and telecommunications department told Hina. Serbian customs officials, who are on a go-slow strike, stopped the van and unpacked the parcels. Among them was an allegedly suspect one, according to the customs officials, so the two drivers were brought before a magistrate and then into custody in Novi Sad. After a night spent in detention, they were released. The post and telecommunications department said they had no information about any suspect parcel, but asserted the Serbian customs officials had overstepped their authority, since they had no right to open parcels sent in line with the said agreement between the two posts. (hina) lml