CRO OFFICIALS AND SERB REPS CALL FOR RESUMPTION OF CLASSES ( Editorial: --> 9791 )

( Editorial: --> 9791 ) ZAGREB, Nov 10 (Hina) - Representatives of the Croatian national committee in charge of the establishment of trust, the education and sport ministry and the joint council of (Serb) municipalities (ZVO) held a session in Zagreb on Monday to discuss contentious issues regarding the situation in schools in the Croatian Danube river area. Participants in the session adopted conclusions which, they said, should help to "normalise the situation." Monday's meeting at the education ministry was convened following the Serb boycott of classes in Vukovar as the Serb parents alleged that commitments from an agreement on the reintegration of schools in the UN-administrated eastern Croatian area were not fulfilled. Present at the meeting were Education Minister Ljilja Vokic, the national trust establishment committee's chairwoman, Vesna Skare- Ozbolt, Skare-Ozbolt's deputies Vojislav Stanimirovic and Ivica Vrkic, the head of the joint council of the municipalities (ZVO) Milos Vojnovic. At the end of the three-hour session they agreed that schools which did not work on Monday should resume classes. They concluded that a moratorium on teaching 1991-1997 history would be complied with and that units referring to this period would be separated from textbooks. Parts of the material referring to the national group of subjects would be forwarded to schools in the Danube river area within one month. Additional talks would be held on the appointment of headmasters in those schools. School documentation would be bilingual. The seals for the documentation of children who attend classes in Serb would be also bilingual and should be made and delivered within one week. Bilingual plaques should be set on the walls of those schools in next fifteen days. The Serb cultural society called "Prosvjeta" and the joint council of municipalities (ZVO) should forward a list of translators of schoolbooks into the Serb language, which would be printed in Cyrillic script. Ms. Skare-Ozbolt assumed obligation to speed up the validation of diplomas. An Assistant Education Minister, Bozica Simlesa, and a member of the ZVO education committee, Milan Milic, were charged to follow whether Monday's conclusions were being respected in practice. (hina) jn mš 102328 MET nov 97