KLEIN TALKS WITH SERBIAN PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC IN BELGRADE

BELGRADE, March 6 (Hina) - Transitional Administrator of the Croatian Danubian area, Jacques Klein, on Thursday said to reporters in Belgrade that he had held talks today with Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic on forthcoming elections in Croatia. Klein confirmed that the elections in the Croatian Danubian area would be held when they were to be held in entire Croatia - on April 13. UN Transitional Administrator added that he had asked Serbian President to continue offering his support to the process of reintegration of the Croatian Danubian area. Klein also said that he had notified President Milosevic of areas of municipalities as well as of the Croatian Government's Letter of Intent approved by the UN Security Council. The situation was such that people were cynical and suspicious, to some extent, when they spoke about elections. We had to persuade them that for the first time they had the real opportunity of deciding on their future, Klein said. He described the situation in the region as stable. Speaking of the building of confidence, he portrayed as very important the fact that there was Transitional Police with which 600 Croatian policemen were serving as well. Klein added that confidence may be built also in different institutions and that the local population had guarantees for employment Klein said he had talked with Milosevic about demilitarisation of the area. He claimed that both Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Croatia as well as Hungary would benefit from it. People in the region requested the answer whether the region would be demilitarised, how the border would look like and whether it would be open enough as well as whether dual citizenship would be possible. Some people would, no doubt, leave for this or that reason, Klein said. He added that he believed that most of them would stay, if they were guaranteed security and if Croatia acted consistently in this regard. He said that he saw farmers working in fields while he was travelling to Belgrade. If they sowed and spent money, this meant that they would stay until the harvest, Klein added. (hina) jn mš 061914 MET mar 97