SKARE-OZBOLT TALKS WITH AUSTRIAN AMBASSADOR TO OSCE

( Editorial: --> 3998 ) ZAGREB, June 26 (Hina) - President of the National Trust Establishment Committee, Vesna Skare-Ozbolt, met with the Austrian Ambassador to the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Jutta Stefan-Bastl, in Zagreb on Friday, the Committee said in a statement. Stefan-Bastl was interested in the situation in the Danube region and other war affected areas. The two officials talked about the work of the OSCE Mission in Croatia, especially its new responsibility in supervising the police in the Danube region. Skare-Ozbolt informed Ambassador Stefan-Bastl on the work of the Committee, the course of the return and the process of normalising conditions in the Danube region. The two officials particularly discussed reconstruction, the return programme and forms of further cooperation with the international community in the effective resolution of these issues. Skare-Ozbolt said that greater participation by the international community was necessary in reconstruction through direct investments and the financing of concrete projects for economic revival of the war affected areas. (hina) jn bag/rml 261902 MET jun 98