U.N. TO PROTECT PROPERTY IN OCCUPIED CROATIAN AREA - KOVAC

OSIJEK, Feb 22 (Hina) - One of the tasks of the UN Transitional Administration in the Croatian Danubian region is the protection of Croatian property in the occupied areas, Privatization Fund president Milan Kovac said in the eastern city of Osijek on Thursday. Kovac met the head of the government office for restoration of Croatian authority in the occupied areas, Ivica Vrkic, and Osijek county and city officials for talks on the protection and privatization of socially-owned property in the occupied areas of eastern Croatia. Kovac said that he would ask UN Administrator Jacques Klein for permission for Privatization Fund officials to visit the occupied areas to make an inventory of corporate property. He said that the Ownership Transormation Act would be applied without exception in the process of privatizing those companies. (hina) lm jn 221728 MET feb 96