APEL CENTRE GIVES WHITE BRICK TO FRENCH AMBASSADOR

( Editorial: --> 4445 ) ZAGREB, Aug 18 (Hina) - A delegation from the Apel Centre on Tuesday presented the French Ambassador to Croatia, Jean Jacques Gaillard, with a white brick to support their drive for the reconstruction of a house in Vukovar. The hand over by the Apel Centre, a Croatian non-government organisation for the protection of the rights of detained and missing citizens of Croatia and their families, came as part of its campaign to mobilise politicians for the voluntary reconstruction of the house in their spare time. Apel president Zdenka Farkas also presented Ambassador Gaillard a letter in which she outlined the problem of persons who were detained and deported by force during the Serbian aggression against Croatia. In the letter she appealed to the ambassador to use diplomatic channels to persuade the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to provide information on all the detainees, as well as information on all executed persons and the location of their graves. So far Apel has presented white bricks to Croatian Popular Party president Tomislav Mercep, America's Ambassador to Croatia, William Montgomery, OSCE mission to Croatia head Tim Guldimann, and Greece's Ambassador to Croatia, Stavros Vassilopoulos. (Hina) mro /mbr 182225 MET aug 98