CRO INTERIOR MINISTER RECEIVES OSCE HEAD IN INCOMING VISIT

ZAGREB, Feb 8 (Hina)- Croatian Interior Minister Sime Lucin on Tuesday said that Croatia had an entirely new concept for solving the issue of the Croatian Danube River region which would lead to the improvement of the situation in the region, the Croatian Interior Ministry reported. Lucin on Tuesday received the head of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe's (OSCE) Mission to Croatia, Bernard Poncet, in the incoming visit. The two officials discussed the situation in the Croatian Danube River region. Poncet introduced Lucin with the system of police monitoring in the Danube River region as well as with 12 police monitoring in coordination centres in Croatia. He also pointed to the problem of cooperation with the former authorities, read the statement. Lucin said that Croatia's new Government had an entirely new concept for this problem, and expressed belief that the new policy would be supported by Europe, read the statement. "It was stressed that the issue of the Danube River region was least a police problem, and that by the creation of a new atmosphere and change of the general policy would lead to the improvement of the situation", the statement concluded. (hina) it