OSIJEK COUNTY ADMINISTRATION HOLDS SESSION ON PEACEFUL REINTEGRATI

REINTEGRATI $ ON OSIJEK, July 15 (Hina) - Osijek County Administration on Monday held a session which discussed the progress of the peaceful reintegration of the Croatian Danubian area and about the tasks of county offices in the area. Head of the Croatian government Office of the Temporary Administration for the Establishment of Croatian Authority in Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Srijem, Ivica Vrkic, said that talks with Serb representatives would be held about the improvement of economic cooperation in the next few days, adding that segments of Croatian authority would gradually be entering the Danubian area in the oncoming phase of the civilian section of the UNTAES. #L# Member of the Osijek County Administration, Branko Novak said that activities in the field of economy had to be speeded up so that Croatian companies could get hold of their property in the area under UNTAES control in order to start agricultural production. Head of the Implementation Committee for Education and Culture Ksenija Zbozil informed the session that there was a standstill in talks with the Serb side due to their unacceptance of their status as an ethnic minority. She added that the Croatian side still had no information about the state of schools in the Danubian area, so it could not suggest priorities as regards the reconstruction of schools. (hina) lm jn 151217 MET jul 96