REBUILT KINDERGARTEN OPENS IN VUKOVAR

VUKOVAR, Aug 20 (Hina) - A kindergarten, whose reconstruction was financed by the government of Norway, was opened in the eastern Croatian town of Vukovar on Wednesday. The kindergarten "Buducnost" (Future) was the first rebuilt kindergarten to open in this Danube river town. Reconstruction work cost about 600,000 German marks. The Norwegian government plans to invest about 10 million marks in the reconstruction of the Croatian Danube region. The kindergarten was opened by Norwegian ambassador to Croatia Knut Moerkved, Eli Bastholm of the humanitarian organisation Norwegian Council for Refugees, Vukovar County deputy prefect Andrija Matic and civilian affairs coordinator of the UN Transitional Administration in the region Gerard Fischer. The opening ceremony was also attended by deputy director of the Centre for the Development and Reconstruction of the Danube region Slobodan Jovcic and Vukovar mayor Vladimir Stengl. (hina) vm jn 201926 MET aug 97