CRO GOVT HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE ON NEW PROJECTS IN DANUBIAN AREA

OSIJEK, May 13 (Hina) - The Human Rights Committee attached to the Government Office for the establishment of Croatian authority in the Croatian Danubian area has already held four meetings with local Serb representatives, Committee chairman Drazen Matijevic told an Osijek news conference on Monday. The meetings focused on amnesty laws, ownership issues and the education of the local population in human-rights issues, he said. "The task of the Committee is to seek, in cooperation with the Serb commission, for ways to communicate to the population that human rights abuses will not be tolerated and that the Croatian Constitution upholds the highest international human rights standards," Matijevic said. The Government Office was interested in organising human rights courses in the Danubian area, the press conference heard. The project would be elaborated by UNTAES. The next meeting between the Croat and Serb Commissions is to be held on May 17 in Beli Manastir. (hina) as 131651 MET may 96