INSPECTION OF DEMILITARIZATION TO BEGIN ON 24 JUNE

OSIJEK, June 21 (Hina) - The joint implementation committee for military issues on Friday held its last meeting in occasion of the end of the demilitarization of the Croatian Danubian area at a UNTAES checkpoint between Nemetin and Sarvas. Present were UNTAES Transitional Administrator, Jacques Paul Klein, Croatian Army commander in Djakovo, Lieutenant General Djuro Decak, UNTAES forces commander, General Joseph Schoups, and commander of the Serb paramilitary forces in Croatia's occupied area, General Dusan Loncar. After the meeting Klein said that the peaceful reintegration would be "most useful to people living in that region", and pointed out the economic rehabilitation of the region, the return of all displaced persons and "the isolation of extremists from both sides" as UNTAES' next duties. Decak said that the demilitarization had not been completed and that Serbs must surrender barracks in Vukovar and Beli Manastir to UNTAES. He also pointed out that Croatian and Serb representatives and UNTAES would sign a document confirming the end of the demilitarization at 15,00 of 27 June. Pointing out that cooperation between the Croat and Serb sides helped to "avoid war", Loncar said that "all conditions have been made to implement the signed agreements through peaceful, political methods", and added that the demobilization of the so-called Serb "corps of Slavonia-Baranja" had been done "correctly and in the agreement's spirit". Schoups pointed out that the local Serb army had been demobilized and that, according to U.N. monitors' data, until 18 June the process included 118 tanks, 19 armoured vehicles, more than 150 artillery pieces and about 50 pieces of anti-aircraft and armour-piercing artillery. He also said that the demilitarization to begin in Beli Manastir on 24 June, and to continue in Darda, Klisa and Djeletovci in the following days, would include the inspection of about a 100 weapon locations. Schoups concluded by saying that he must submit a report to the U.N. Security Council seven days after the end of the demilitarization, and added that the situation in the Vukovar barracks would be inspected on 27 June when the UNTAES command would be situated there. (hina) ha mm 211834 MET jun 96