MIRKOVCI GETS COMMISSIONER AS OF SEPTEMBER 1

( Editorial: --> 6443 ) VINKOVCI, Aug 27 (Hina) - The function of transitional commissioner, municipal council and municipal leadership for the eastern Croatian municipality of Mirkovci will cease to function as of September 1. Instead, a commissioner for the Mirkovci local committee will be appointed, the Office of Vinkovci mayor, Mladen Karlic, said on Thursday. Representatives of the Vinkovci city administration, Vukovar- Srijem County Prefect Rudolf Koenig, representatives of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and representatives of Mirkovci held a meeting in Vinkovci on Thursday to discuss Mirkovci's inclusion into the system of local government and self-government of Vinkovci. The talks also focused on the formal completion of the transitional status of this municipality established by the administration of the former Transitional Administrator for eastern Slavonia, Baranja and western Srijem, Jacques Klein. The Vinkovci city leadership will appoint an administrator for the Mirkovci municipality who will be in office until local elections in mid-December 1998. (hina) lml 272052 MET aug 98