YUGOSLAV, CROATIAN, BOSNIAN INTERIOR MINISTERS MEET IN BELGRADE

BELGRADE, June 12 (Hina) - Interior Ministers of Croatia, Yugoslavia and the two entities of Bosnia-Herzegovina, including the Bosnian border service director, held talks in Belgrade today about cooperation in the struggle against organised crime. The Yugoslav Information Ministry said in a statement the officials agreed on the holding of the first session of the regional working group of experts to draw up a strategy of the joint fight against organised crime. The session will be held in Zagreb on June 25, they agreed. The meeting in Belgrade was also attended by deputy UN Mission chief in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Robert Gradwell. The Yugoslav delegation was headed by Minister Zoran Zivkovic, the Croatian by minister Sime Lucin, Muhamed Besic lead the Bosnian Federation delegation, Dragomir Jovicic lead the Republika Srpska delegation, and Nijaz Spahic represented the Bosnian border service. The ministers described the meeting as successful and stressed the fight against all forms of organised crime in the region was a step forward towards joining an integrated Europe. Today's meeting was also an opportunity for talks among ministry commissioners of countries, signatories of the arrangement on a joint implementation of laws in the fight against illegal migration and organised crime, signed in Sarajevo on May 14 at the initiative of the UN Mission to Bosnia-Herzegovina. Gradwell relayed to the participants the congratulations of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan for the progress achieved in joint cooperation. The UN Mission chief in Bosnia, Jacques Klein will thus comment on the positive steps on June 15, during his address before the UN Security Council, the ministry statement read. (hina) lml