TIME-LIMIT FOR DEMILITARIZATION OF E. SLAVONIA ENDS AT NOON

OSIJEK, June 20 (Hina) - Ninety percent of military and paramilitary troops have been dismissed and 90% of heavy weaponry has been handed over to UNTAES by the end of the time-limit on Thursday at noon, Croatian Presidential envoy with the government Office for Temporary Administration and head of the Temporary Committee for military issues Major General Slavko Baric said. He expressed satisfaction with the removal of heavy weaponry, but warned that two big barracks in Vukovar and Beli Manastir had not yet been handed over to UNTAES, as well as several military facilities. Most of the hundred tanks had been transported to Serbia, Baric said. "I am satisfied with the fact that there are no Serb military and paramilitary forces, thus, there are no obstacles in the way of Croatian authority entering the area, and towns like Osijek and Vinkovci cannot be threatened any more," Baric said. He added that President Tudjman had suggested Baric to be appointed as permanent member of General Klein's Transitional Administration in Vukovar. Along with the commander of the rebel Serb forces General Dusan Loncar and commander of UNTAES military troops, General Schoops, Baric would visit the occupied areas to investigate the results of the demilitarization. Baric said that 120 police officers are to be deployed to 11 police stations under UNTAES control from July 1, and that the UNTAES, that is, Transitional Administrator, Jacques Klein, should take over control of the Croatian Danubian area. "The police will be mixed - it will consist of Croatian, Serb and UNTAES officers, with a UNTAES police officer as main commander, while a Croatian and a Serb will be deputies", Baric said. "As weapons and the Serb army have been removed from the separation line, I suggested to the Croatian army Chief-of-Staff, General Cervenko, to give out an order on substituting Croatian army troops at the separation line with the police," Baric said, adding that he had also suggested to the UNTAES that within the newt few days, engineers arrive in Lipovac, Nijemci, Antunovac, Marinci, Laslovo, Korodj and Bilje in order to assess the state of the villages, so that mine clearance could be started in the next five days to enable the return of refugees. (hina) lm jn 201354 MET jun 96