KOSTUNICA'S PARTY FOR TALKS ON DEMARCATION WITH CROATIA

BELGRADE, Aug 3 (Hina) - A dispute between Yugoslavia and Croatia regarding the Prevlaka peninsula is not the only border issue between two countries. A similar problem also exists in the municipalities of Backa Palanka, Sombor and Apatin, Novi Sad's daily "Dnevnik" reported on Friday. The Sombor municipal board of the Democratic Party of Serbia has collected data on contentious territories from the geodetic administration and proceeded the documentation to Yugoslav and party's President Vojislav Kostunica, requesting negotiations on the demarcation of the state border on the Danube, the daily reported. Contentious are about 5,500 hectares of the Kopacki rit national park in eastern-most Croatia, the river bank (Sarengradska ada) in Backa Palanka municipality, located along the Yugoslavian bank of the Danube but registered in cadastral books in Croatia, and 1,000 hectares of farmland in Apatin municipality. The majority of the Croatian territory is in Sombor municipality - nearly 8,000 hectares, while 610 hectares of land in Croatia are registered in cadastral books in Sombor. The daily reports that the problems occurred because the river Danube is not the border between two countries in certain areas. The border between Croatia and FRY has been changing for the past few centuries because the Danube was also changing its course. The article in "Dnevnik" included individual experts' statements according to which the Croatia-Yugoslavia state border should be along the river's middle. (hina) np ha