LJUBLJANA: DIFFICULT TO DIVIDE PROPERTY OF FORMER YUGOSLAVIA

LJUBLJANA, April 10 (Hina) - The Slovenian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday conducted a meeting behind closed doors of a combined committee for the division of diplomatic-consular property belonging to the former Yugoslavia. #L# The Croatian delegation was headed by a Foreign Ministry secretary, Tatjana Kralj Draganic. Slovene sources reported that a list was presented at the meeting detailing the division of diplomatic real estate after the first round of division had already been conducted. In that division, Croatia is to be given rights to use the building in Chile and ownership of the embassy building of the former Yugoslavia in Paris. The Slovene representative at the meeting, Borut Trekman, told Slovene media that the agreement on the division of property still had not been concluded and that all successor states expected to gain property above the quota assigned to them in Vienna within the framework of the Agreement on Succession. At the meeting, as informed, there was mostly talk about the division of art items contained in the buildings owned by the former Yugoslavia which is to be governed by the principle that the works will go to those countries from where the artists originate. Concordance was not attained regarding the division of artefacts by authors originating from outside the region of the former Yugoslavia and it was decided that art experts be included in future state delegations. Slovenia - as local sources emphasised - once again stressed that it was interested in being given properties belonging to the former Yugoslavia, located in Italy, Austria and Hungary. (hina) sp sb