KLEIN: DEMANDS FOR AUTONOMY OF LOCAL SERBS IN CRO UNREAL

BELGRADE, August 4 (Hina) - UNTAES Temporary Administrator General Jacques Klein on Saturday took part for the first time in the work of the "parliament" of local Serbs in Vukovar. According to Belgrade's Radio B92, Klein said that he would forward the Local Serbs' demand for the extension of UNTAES' mandate in the Danubian area to the Security Council. Klein said that the U.N. Mission cost USD 300 million yearly and that the final word on it was up to the Security Council, which took the progress in the Mission as the basic precondition for its decision. Speaking about elections, Klein said that the precondition for them was a good-quality Croatian Amnesty Law and the solution to the issue of documents. According to Radio B92, Klein said that the local Serbs' aspirations towards autonomy were unreal, adding that work should be directed towards autonomy in education and the right to language and alphabet. Belgrade did not want new refugees, Klein said, adding that all vital problems as regarded the region would be discussed with Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic in the Serbian capital. Klein told representatives of the local Serbs' "parliament" that money was a serious problem to a lasting realization of the U.N. Mission and that apart from promises, there were no concrete signs towards improvement. (hina) ha 041102 MET aug 96