SERBIAN OFFICIALS ABOUT BORDER DEMARCATION WITH CROATIA

BELGRADE, Aug 9 (Hina) - Negotiations with Croatia about the border along the Danube river are more than difficult. Croatia's commission will not abandon its stance "meter for meter" and it recognises only the cadastral documentation as the way for demarcation. We are facing a difficult struggle at the negotiating table about the territory on the 260 km-long northern part of the border with Croatia, the head of the Serbian and Montenegrin Foreign Ministry's border department, Rade Cucak, told Belgrade's Blic daily. #l# Croatia and Serbia-Montenegro disagree about the border line along the river because Croatia officials claim that the land along the Danube bank is connected to border municipalities in Croatia -- Beli Manastir, Vukovar, Ilok and Sarengrad. Serbia-Montenegro, however, believes this region belongs to its municipalities of Apatin, Sombor, Bac and Backa Palanka. "There are no disputes about the area between the Sava and the Danube rivers, but our villages of Nestin and Viziv in Backa Palanka municipality are cut off from their mother municipality by the Danube river," Cucak said in an interview for Blic published on Saturday. Serbia and Montenegro's Foreign Minister, Goran Svilanovic, told the daily that there were more drastic examples about this in the world. "Take Denmark, for example whose national airport is located in Sweden and it is functioning without problems. Everything can be regulated with agreements," said Svilanovic. (hina) it