MEETING WITH TEACHERS FROM UN-ADMINISTERED AREA FAILS TO TAKE PLAC

PLAC $ E OSIJEK, Sept 4 (Hina) - A meeting of teachers from the Osijek and Vukovar Counties and teachers from parts of those counties under U.N. Administration that was to take place in Osijek on Wednesday did not take place because teachers from the occupied area did not arrive. Deputy U.N. Transitional Administrator Derek Boothby said today that UNTAES was responsible for the non-holding of the meeting because it failed to arrange transport. Some 60 teachers from the occupied area and their Croatian colleagues were supposed to discuss syllabi proposed by Croatia. Aide to Croatian Education and Sports Minister Bozica Simlesa said she would demand that the meeting with those teachers, many of whom belonged to ethnic minorities, take place. "We know that national communities and minorities in some schools from that area want to work according to Croatian syllabi, apart from the Serbs, who on 2 September started the new school year with their syllabus", Simlesa said. Osijek Prefect Branimir Glavas said he had been informed that not even all teachers had arrived for departure. (hina) ha jn 041703 MET sep 96