HRVATSKA KOSTAJNICA: TOWN COUNCIL SUPPORTS NEGOTIATORS IN TALKS ON BORDER

HRVATSKA KOSTAJNICA, July 14 (Hina) - The Town Council of Hrvatska Kostajnica, a town bordering with Bosnia-Herzegovina, on Wednesday requested the Croatian Government to insist on Croatia's internationally recognised border and give back to the town about 30 hectares of occupied territory, on which the historical part of the town, called Zrinski, is located. This part of Hrvatska Kostajnica, occupied in 1991, is still under Bosnian Serb control. A diplomatic commission for the demarcation of the border line between the Republic of Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina on July 7 announced that the border line between the two countries had been agreed on completely. The next day, however, a co-chairman of the Bosnian Council of Ministers, Svetozar Mihajlovic, said in Sarajevo that Bosnian Serbs insisted on the exchange of territory between the two countries in that part where the border line intersected the Una River passing from one bank to the other. The head of Croatia's State Commission for Borders, Hrvoje Kacic, who today attended a session of the Town Council of Hrvatska Kostajnica, said it was indisputable that the currently occupied historical part of the town had always been part of the Croatian state territory and that the border between Croatia and Bosnia- Herzegovina in that area had always run along the River Uncica and not the Una River. Mayor Davor Govorcinovic stressed that the old town of Zrinski, whose symbol is part of the coat-of-arms and flag of Hrvatska Kostajnica, had always, until the Serb occupation, been part of Croatia. Residents of Hrvatska Kostajnica are not happy to see the flag of Republika Srpska and the Serb police check point in that part of their town, said Govorcinovic. (hina) jn rml