SKARE-OZBOLT MEETS CROAT RETURNEES

( Editorial: --> 1970 ) OSIJEK, June 17 (Hina) - The President of the National Trust Establishment Committee Vesna Skare-Ozbolt, her deputy Ivica Vrkic and Assistant Interior Minister Josko Moric on Wednesday visited Osijek where they met representatives of the Croatian Returnees' Association and local officials to discuss reconstruction and return. The security situation in the Croatian Danube River region is good, Skare-Ozbolt said adding that the Croatian authorities would do all they could to identify the killers of two Croatian police officers on the Danube River and provide additional security measures on the Croatian-Yugoslav border. Skare-Ozbolt also announced a meeting with representatives of the Centre for Mine-Removal in Osijek. The president of the Croatian Returnees' Association in Osijek County, Josip Kompanovic, warned that out of 62 employees in Beli Manastir city administration only eight were returnees from Osijek. Discussed were also tenancy rights of Croatian citizens of Serb nationality. Asked about the reconstruction of and return to Vukovar, Skare- Ozbolt and Vrkic answered that the state still had to do a lot in order to make Vukovar a city of returnees. (hina) rml 171917 MET jun 98