PREPARATIONS TO INCLUDE BARANJA IN CRO ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM

BELI MANASTIR, August 13 (Hina) - A radio-link between the Beli Manastir 110-kilovolt substation and the Osijek dispatcher centre was established on Monday. Present at the event was a representative of the Croatian government's Temporary Administration Office for the Re- establishment of Croatian Authority in Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Srijem, representatives of UNTAES, Croatia's Electric Power Industry and Serbs from the area controlled by UNTAES. The radio-link would enable the supervision of failures in the substation and the establishment of a link with the dispatcher centre in Osijek, coordinator of the Implementation Committee of the Electric Power Industry of the Temporary Administration Office Vencel Lasic said. Speaking of the event, deputy head of the Temporary Administration Office Mirko Tankosic pointed out that it was a result of the work of implementation committees of the electric power industry whose aim was to include Baranja in Croatia's electric power system as soon as possible. Tankosic said that before the Beli Manastir substation was included in Croatia's electric power system, 3.5 km of the power transmission network between Valpovo and Beli Manastir had to be cleared of mines, which could be done within two or three weeks. (hina) ha as 131913 MET aug 96