KLEIN VISITS BELGRADE

BELGRADE, 8 July (Hina) - The Transitional Administrator for Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Sirmium, Jacques Paul Klein, held talks with the Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic and the Yugoslav army Chief Of Staff Momcilo Perisic, in Belgrade Tuesday. The talks focused on the situation in the Danube river region, the demilitarisation of a 15-km border belt and dual citizenship, Klein told a press conference after the talks. #L# The United Nations demanded that the area be demilitarised as it was in the interest of stability, Klein said. It would be logical for Croatia, Yugoslavia and Hungary to all be interested in the demilitarisation of the area, he added. Klein said he held that Croatia was not interested in the area being militarised again, adding that his conclusion was that Croatia would not deploy its soldiers in the border belt. Klein demanded the same from the Yugoslav side. The two sides should find a suitable solution through talks - either the Yugoslav army should withdraw from the area or the area would be put under an international monitoring mission. The Croatian and Yugoslav Foreign Ministers Mate Granic and Milan Milutinovic respectively would meet next week and discuss this and the question of dual citizenship for Serbs in the Danube river region, Klein said. Klein also announced a U.N. Security Council decision on the extension of the mandate of U.N. Transitional Administration in Eastern Slavonia (UNTAES). He also announced that the plan on the return of refugees would be accelerated as of 1 November. The process would be 'symmetrical', which means that both Croat and Serb refugees would return to their homes, Klein said. The UNTAES would maintain the 'soft border' regime between Croatia and Yugoslavia during its mandate, Klein said. (hina) rm 081849 MET jul 97