AGENCY FOR REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS PURCHASES 1400 OBJECTS

( Editorial: --> 6422 ) VUKOVAR, May 25 (Hina) - The Agency for Facilitating Real Estate Transactions has purchased 1,431 buildings throughout Croatia since September last year, Agency director Ivica Vrkic told reporters in Vukovar, eastern Croatia, Monday. One thousand three hundred buildings were purchased on behalf of the state. Five hundred out of these 1,300 objects were purchased in the Danube River region of eastern Croatia and allocated to local government and self-government officials, and employees of the ministries of the interior, finance, education, health and justice. Some 30 houses in eastern Croatia are intended for Croatian defenders, while another 30 have been given to the ministries of immigration and reconstruction and development, and refugees from Bosnia-Herzegovina. Through the purchase of the said objects the Agency has taken care of some 10,000 people, Vrkic said. The Agency has spread its network all over Croatia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and should soon cover the Bosnian Serb entity as well, he added. In Croatia the Agency has also been purchasing land which, in agreement with the Ministry of Reconstruction and Development, is intended for the construction of houses for Homeland War victims. (hina) rm ha/mrb 251557 MET may 98