CROATIA SOON TO RELEASE LAST SERB WAR PRISONERS

ZAGREB, July 3 (Hina) - Croatia would soon release Serb war prisoners still detained in its prisons, Croatian vice premier Ivica Kostovic said on Wednesday, after talks with the head of the International Red Cross Committee Office in Croatia, Alex Braunwalder. Kostovic said there were no more detainees in Croatian prisons who had been captured during last year's liberation operations of Croatia's occupied territories. Kostovic announced a meeting of Croatian and Serb commissions for the search of missing and imprisoned persons to take place in Belgrade on 8 July, adding that transitional administrator in eastern Slavonia Jacques Klein also considered the meeting very important and therefore "sends certain messages" to the Serb capital. Commissions for the search of the missing and exchange of the imprisoned would meet in Sarajevo on 9 July, where Croats would again search missing Croatian Army pilot Rudolf Peresin and the remains of Croatian soldiers killed in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kostovic concluded. (hina) ha jn 031657 MET jul 96