OSIJEK, 4 April (Hina) - At today's press conference in Osijek, officials of the Government Office of the temporary administration for the establishment of Croatian authority in eastern Slavonia, Baranja and western Srijem spoke about
their activities in the fields of agriculture, health service, public utilities, human rights as well as in the area of military, police and refugee issues.
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OSIJEK, 4 April (Hina) - At today's press conference in Osijek,
officials of the Government Office of the temporary administration
for the establishment of Croatian authority in eastern Slavonia,
Baranja and western Srijem spoke about their activities in the
fields of agriculture, health service, public utilities, human
rights as well as in the area of military, police and refugee
issues. #L#
Progress was made in the talks on the opening of the Vinkovci
(Croatia) - Sid (Vojvodina) highway and railway line, the Office's
head Ivica Vrkic told reporters.
However, despite offers by the Croatian Government, the Serb
side decided that companies from Serbia would provide loans for the
spring sowing. This decision, Vrkic said, threatened the process of
peaceful reintegration and Croatian authorities had informed
Transitional Administrator Jacques Klein and the head of the UNTAES
(United Nations Task Force in eastern Slavonia) civil sector,
Gerard Fischer about this, Vrkic said.
The Croatian side had offered hospitalization and treatment
with dialysis of some 40 patients from the occupied territories.
The Croatian side also agreed with the Serb health council
from the occupied areas on the criteria for the psychiatric
treatment of their patients.
The head of the committee for police issues, Vlado Tulicic
said that on 16 April, 20 Croatian policemen would travel to
Budapest to take part in the training of members of the
transitional administration temporary police force.
According to Tulicic, the policemen would wear neutral
uniforms with U.N. insignia in the first three months.
The transitional police force will not include Croat policemen
from the Croatian Danubian area nor the Serb policemen who did not
live in the area before the aggression.
The head of the Implementation Committee for Human Rights,
Drazen Matijevic, said that the Serb side had sent a request and
would receive Croatian regulations on human rights, minorities'
rights and citizenship.
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