RADIC, VOKIC, VOJNOVIC TALK ABOUT EDUCATION IN CRO DANUBE REGION

REGION $ ZAGREB, Sept 24 (Hina) - We are satisfied with the results of talks on education issues in the Croatian Danube region, the president of the state commission for the establishment of Croatia's constitutional and legal order in the Danube region of eastern Croatia, Jure Radic, Croatian Education and Sports Minister Ljilja Vokic and the president of the Joint Council of Municipalities of Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Srijem, Milos Vojnovic, told reporters after a three-hour meeting held on Wednesday. There are no reasons after today's agreements for pupils in the Croatian Danube region not to attend classes, Radic said, while Vojnovic pointed out there are no reasons for pupils, their parents and teachers in the area to be unsatisfied either. Radic said some 150 elementary school handbooks in the Serbian language will be printed by late October. Some handbooks will be delivered next week, he said. Syllabuses will be worked out in agreement with representatives of the Serb national community, Radic said. Education and Sports Minister Vokic will propose to the government the establishment of a new education network in the Danube region and will revise the current appointment of headmasters, Radic said. In schools in which Croatian pupils will make up the ethnic majority until the end of the year, the headmaster will be a Croat, while his deputy will be a Serb, and vice versa, he explained. In schools where Serbs are in the majority, classes will be held in the Serbian language for those pupils who state they want so, while teaching documents will be written in both languages. "There is no reason why what we agreed on today shouldn't be carried out", said minister Vokic. "The moratorium on teaching history will cover the period between 1989 and 1997", she added. (hina) ha jn 242035 MET sep 97