SERBS LOITER WITH REINTEGRATION OF PUBLIC COMPANIES - MATESA

ZAGREB, March 25 (Hina) - Croatian Prime Minister Zlatko Matesa said on Tuesday that Serbs from the Croatian Danubian area lingered with the reintegration of public companies. "Relevant local Serb political factors will have to definitely decide whether they really want the peaceful reintegration. If they do, they will have to participate in it actively," Matesa said after a meeting of representatives of Croatian public companies engaged in issues of reintegration of public companies in the Croatian Danubian area. #L# Matesa said that the government was dissatisfied with the speed of including the present public companies' employees in the Danubian area into the Croatian system. "The fault lies exclusively on the Serb side," Matesa said. According to him, Serbs loitered in line with a tested scenario - agreements are reached and when the crucial meeting is scheduled to take place, it does not. "We realize these primitive tactics, but they are not on the line of the peaceful reintegration and the interests of the people. They will have to solve it amongst themselves," Matesa said. Matesa expressed dissatisfaction with the cooperation between UNTAES and the Croatian oil company INA with the takeover of gas stations in the Danubian area. Saying that Croatian public companies had so far invested about 75 million kuna (US$ 12.5 million) into the reconstruction of their facilities in the Danubian area, Matesa expressed satisfaction with the job they had completed so far, as well as with the preparations to employ the present employees in the area. (hina) lm jn 251707 MET mar 97