CRO AND YUGOSLAV COMMISSIONS FOR IMPRISONED PERSONS SWAP LISTS

ZAGREB, Dec 23 (Hina) - Croatian and Yugoslav commissions for missing and imprisoned persons on Wednesday ended talks by exchanging lists of detained persons. During their two-day meeting in Zagreb, the commissions discussed the realisation of an agreement reached by Croatian Foreign Minister Mate Granic and his Yugoslav counterpart Zivadin Jovanovic in August, head of the Croatian commission, Ivan Grujic, said after the meeting. Granic and Jovanovic assessed 17 persons were being held in Yugoslav prisons and about 64 in Croatian. "The exchanged lists are to be verified by both sides, and verification has been requested from the International Red Cross, with possible additions," Grujic said. Also, "criteria have to be established about the category of persons to whom the agreement should apply," Grujic said, adding that the starting points for establishing the criteria have been set at the meeting. Croatia is currently searching for 1,795 persons, and Yugoslavia for 700, of which 580 requests apply to Croatia and 120 to Bosnia- Herzegovina. Head of the Yugoslav Commission's Government in charge of humanitarian issues, Maksim Korac, said the meeting also focused on the issue of Serbs who had gone missing during the liberation of occupied Croatian areas. "Yugoslavia is searching for 2,500 persons, but this number will soon decrease because we have received 660 files from Croatia, among which 100 have been processed, and another 100 are currently being processed," Korac told reporters. The number of missing persons is expected to decrease by half, Korac said. A large number of Serb refugees are residing in Yugoslavia, Korac said, and Croatia and Yugoslavia are joining efforts to identify and find them, Korac stressed. (hina) lml jn