CROATIA WANTS U.N. TO OPEN HUMAN RIGHTS CENTRES IN VUKOVAR

ZAGREB, May 8 (Hina) - The Croatian and Yugoslav governments have signed a protocol under which their respective commissions for missing persons would exchange information on missing persons and prisoners of war at a return meeting due to take place in Belgrade, Croatian Deputy Prime Minister Ivica Kostovic told a lower house session on Wednesday. Speaking during question time, Kostovic said that the government had filed a request to General Jacques Klein, UN Transitional Administrator in the occupied areas of eastern Croatia, that human rights centres be opened in the town of Vukovar by September 1 this year. Finance Minister Bozo Prka, in response to questions by opposition deputies on what the government was planning to do with the "Novi List" case in view of the fact that other newspapers had also failed to pay turnover tax on services, said that everybody was entitled to appeal against the penalty decision. He added that his ministry would wait for the outcome of the administrative procedure. (hina) vm jn 081335 MET may 96