VUKOVAR, June 2 (Hina) - Croatia's Deputy Prime Minister Ivica
Kostovic visited the Serb-occupied eastern town of Vukovar on
Tuesday where he held closed-door talks with the UN Transitional
Administrator for Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Srijem,
US General Jacques Klein.
Kostovic told reporters that the talks focused on
preparations for return of Croatian refugees to the region.
The Croatian government had earmarked nearly 500,000 kuna
(about DM 140,000) for pilot programmes to return 15,593 Croatian
refugees to Bilje, Antunovac, Ceric, Marinci, Lipovac and
Tovarnik where 85 per cent of residential and commercial
buildings had been damaged, he said.
Klein announced that he would raise the issue of imprisoned
and missing persons next time he visited Belgrade.
The two officials arranged for a Croatian parliament
delegation to visit Vukovar soon.
The talks also focused on border crossings between Croatia,
Hungary and Yugoslavia, particularly on technical issues
concerning the deployment of Croatian border police and customs
officers and the introduction of Croatian state insignia.
It was agreed that a border crossing at Udvar, towards
Hungary, would be opened first.
Earlier on, Kostovic had visited the nearby villages of
Negoslavci, Orolik, Djeletovci, Nijemci, Podgrade, Apsevci and
Lipovac.
In Djeletovci, he met the commander of the UN Jordanian
Battalion which was caring for several elderly people in the
village and about 70 people in the area under its control who
needed medical attention.
Kostovic toured oil installations at Djeletovci and saw a
devastated administration building and 71 mined oil wells.
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