SHEDING LIGHT ON FATE OF MISSING AND DETAINED PERSONS HAMPERED BECAUSE FRY DOES NOT COOPERATE - GRUJIC

ZAGREB, Oct 11 (Hina) - The Croatian national parliament's House of Representatives on Wednesday morning continued its session by a discussion on a report on the work of the government's commission for missing and detained persons. President of the commission Ivan Grujic submitted the report for the period between October 15, 1999 and August 30, 2000. He stressed that shading light on the fate of missing and detained persons is hampered because the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia does not wish to give information. During the discussion, Jadranka Kosor of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) wondered whether the fate of missing and detained Croatian Homeland Defence War soldiers and civilians was the topic of recent talks between a Croatian government envoy and new Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica, stressing that the solving of this issue should be the pre-condition to all talks on the normalisation of relations with the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. In his report, Grujic reminded negotiations with the FRY, which had been interrupted due to NATO air strikes, were continued in July, however, there were no results. Speaking of the cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, Grujic said investigators from The Hague were present at each exhumation, and that war crimes committed in Ovcara and Skabrinja were included in indictments. (hina) it