CROATIA STILL LOOKING FOR 1,275 MISSING, IMPRISONED PERSONS

ZAGREB, May 14 (Hina) - Croatia is still searching for 1,275 people who went missing in the Serb aggression on the country, the head of the government's Office for Missing and Imprisoned Persons, Ivan Grujic, said in Zagreb on Wednesday. #L# Grujic gave the statement after a meeting of working groups of the Croatian office and the Serbian and Montenegrin Council of Ministers' Commission on Humanitarian Affairs and Missing Persons. Today's meeting was held after a break which lasted several months due to the reorganisation of the Serbia-Montenegro state union. Serbia and Montenegro is officially looking for 520 citizens who went missing in Croatia, said Maksim Korac, head of the Serbia- Montenegro commission. Croatian Serb refugees are trying to trace another 2,701 people, he said, adding that this was unofficial data referring to Croatian Serb citizens. Grujic said the Serbian-Montenegrin delegation had promised that exhumations in its territory would continue. The remains of 189 people have been exhumed in the areas of Sremska Mitrovica, Novi Sad and Sid, he said. Exhumations will resume in Belgrade and Pancevo, Grujic added. Around 60 people whose exhumation Croatia requested were buried in the area of Belgrade and ten more in the area of Pancevo. The beginning of exhumations in Belgrade and Pancevo will be set at the next meeting in Belgrade. Croatia has requested Serbia and Montenegro to provide documents on Vukovar Hospital, which, according to eye-witnesses, were taken to Belgrade by the former Yugoslav People's Army, Grujic said. According to data of the Croatian office, the bodies of 3,398 people have been exhumed from 136 mass and a number of individual graves in Croatia so far. Of that number, 2,810 have been identified, of whom 1,211 were among those reported missing. (hina) rml