RETURN MUST START - UN TRANSITIONAL ADMINSTRATOR

OSIJEK, July 5 (Hina) - UN Transitional Administrator for the Croatian Danube area, Jacques Klein, on Saturday said that a larger number of the displaced and refugees should be convinced to begin returning to their homes. Unless they began returning, we would have a static situation in which the displaced could not come back to the Croatian Danube area, as Serbs were still there and could not move into their houses in other parts of Croatia. We must convince people to return. This demanded the leadership, courage and money, but we must start. If we founded enough people of good will, we would succeed, Klein said at the closing of the UNTAES market near Osijek. Speaking of the UNTAES mandate, Klein announced that a decision on the matter was likely to be made next week, and added that on July 15 Jordanian, Pakistani and Argentinean UNTAES battalions would begin withdrawing, whereas the beginning of the pullout of Russian and Belgian battalions was due for August so that those troops could leave the area until October. About 750 engineers and doctors as well as helicopter crews and small units of guards would remain, whereas check-points at former separation lines would be taken over by the Transitional Police Force and UNTAES civilian police, he added. Commenting on an agreement on customs in the Danube area, signed on Thursday, Klein said that a 'balanced regime' would become valid at border crossings in the area. We would like that Croatia and FR Yugoslavia sign an agreement on "soft border" in next two weeks, so that the border might stay open as it had been so far - between 30,000 and 32,000 people, 10,000-12,000 cars and 780 busses and trucks passed it every day, the U.S. retired general said. He added that Croatian businessmen should be persuaded to open business and act in the Croatian Danube area. Klein announced that on Tuesday he would hold talks with Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic and Yugoslav army leaders in Belgrade on demilitarisation and dual citizenship. In connection with dual citizenship, Belgrade had problems as in case that country allowed dual citizenship, they would have to grant it to Kosovo ethnic Albanians, and Belgrade did not want this. We were trying to find a formula that dual citizenship could be granted to inhabitants of the Croatian Danube area, but that others in Yugoslavia could not receive it, he explained. Asked about a list of war crimes suspects in the Danube area, Klein said that the list with about 140 names had been reduced to one with 25 names and that those people had the right to appeal. (hina) mš 051612 MET jul 97