ONLY GOVT HAS INFLUENCE ON EXECUTIVE AUTHORITY IN E. CRO - MATESA

( Editorial: --> 2760 ) ZAGREB, Feb 18 (Hina) - No one but the government has influence on the executive authority in the Danube river region of eastern Croatia, Premier Zlatko Matesa told a session of the Croatian National Parliament's House of Representatives Wednesday. "Croatia will continue implementing the policy which brought to 15 January and the peaceful reintegration of the Danube river region into the constitutional and legal order of the Republic of Croatia", said the premier. "This includes", he added, "the activities of the National Committee for the restoration of trust and all other activities which, from Croatia's point of view, are acceptable", Matesa said in answer to Boris Kandare of the Croatian Party of Rights (HSP), who asked if the government, besides Croatian laws, had to comply with the will of the international community as well. Vlado Jukic, also of the HSP, believed the rescinding of a regulation on state-owned flats in eastern Croatia was detrimental to residents of Vukovar and Croatian displaced persons. Matesa said that regardless of whether the regulation was valid or not, it could not influence the rights of the displaced and Vukovar residents. Their rights are fully protected, the premier said. According to HSP president Anto Djapic, a statement by the National Committee for the restoration of trust on events which occurred during the party's founding assembly in Vukovar on 14 February had been made without a session and "put forward untrue contents." Djapic asked whether the government would react on the statement, on the basis of data to be submitted by the HSP. The premier pointed out that "what took place was, in the international sense, detrimental to Croatia and made further pressures possible." In answer to Josko Kovac of the Croatian Peasant Party (HSS), Premier Matesa said that two motorways, via the Croatian region of Lika and via Bosnia-Herzegovina, would be built towards the sea port of Split. Answering HSS' Marinko Filipovic, Matesa said the idea of possible building of NATO bases in Croatia was just an idea. If Croatia is presented with such a proposal, it will be discussed and evaluated if it is in Croatia's interest, the premier said. Speaking about the southern sea port of Ploce, Matesa said that intensive negotiations were in course, and that Croatia's sovereignty was not brought into question. It is part of overall relations between Croatia and the Croat-Muslim Federation of BH, which must be regulated by an agreement on special relations, the premier explained. (hina) ha mm 181330 MET feb 98