CRO, YU COMMISSIONS FOR DETAINED, MISSING SIGN PROTOCOL ON COOPER

COOPER $ ATION ZAGREB, 17 April (Hina) - After two days of negotiations, the president of the Croatian Government Commission for Missing and Detained Persons, Major Ivan Grujic, and the president of the Yugoslav Commission for Humanitarian Issues and Missing Persons, Pavle Todorovic, signed a protocol on cooperation between the two commissions in Zagreb on Wednesday. #L# 'The protocol provides for the release of all imprisoned persons. Croatia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia are bound by the protocol to provide precise details on all persons they hold in custody', Grujic said. This, he added, was the key to the solution of the problem. After the signing of the protocol the two sides would start the release procedure. Grujic described the talks and the signing of the protocol as positive, adding that the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) managed to establish contact with 11 families who had been registered missing. According to the information the ICRC received last year, the 11 families were on the territory of Yugoslavia and contact had been established with them. They were no longer considered missing, Grujic said. The two-day talks in Zagreb also prompted the question of missing persons from the areas of Kupres, Posavina and eastern Slavonia. Grujic reiterated Croatia's basic request for a protocol on the identification of 1,400 killed persons. There was documentation on that protocol, Grujic said, mentioning death notices received earlier for some of those persons which contained some mistakes. The head of the Yugoslav Commission Pavle Todorovic said he expected a speedy implementation of the protocol. The release of all imprisoned persons was the most important issue, he added. (hina) rm 172047 MET apr 96