MISSING SOLDEIRS' FAMILIES WRITE TO UN SECRETARY GENERAL, GEN. KLE

KLE $ IN OSIJEK, Jan 19 (Hina) - The association of the Croatian missing and detained soldiers' families in Osijek-Baranja County, on Sunday sent a letter with congratulations to the UN Secretary-General on his recent election to the post. The families also asked him to help investigate efficiently the cases of missing and detained Croatian Homeland War defenders. The association's head, Mrs. Stefica Kristic, said that they also had forwarded a letter to General Jacques Klein, the U.N. Transitional Administrator in the Danube river area of eastern Croatia. In the letter they requested him that everyday unimpeded movement of a subcomission for the missing person and detainees should be enabled in the Danubian area "without prior permission of the other side" in order to establish the destiny of the missing people. Parents of Croatian missing and detained defenders expressed gratitude to General Klein for his work, she said and added that they were still disappointed as the whereabouts were still unknown of some 240 Croatian soldiers in Osijek County. (hina) mš 191602 MET jan 97