TALKS ON ESTABLISHMENT OF CRO PUBLIC COMPANIES IN E. SLAVONIA HELD

HELD $ IN ZAGREB ZAGREB, 19 Sept (Hina) - Representatives of the Croatian government and Croatian public corporations met on Thursday with Serb representatives from the U.N. administered Croatian Danubian area. The talks, held in Zagreb, focused on the establishment of public corporations in the Danubian area. The meeting was also attended by the head of the Office for the establishment of Croatian authority in eastern Slavonia, Ivica Vrkic, and UNTAES representatives. The head of the Government Coordination of Public Corporations, Ivan Majdak, stated after the meeting that the two sides had agreed that two representatives from each of the public corporations - Croatian Roads, Croatian Railways, Croatian Electric Power Industry and Croatian Post and Telecommunications - make a project on the establishment, financing and work of those public companies in the Croatian Danubian area. Representative of local Serbs, Vojislav Stanimirovic, said that it had been agreed that the establishment of railway and road traffic be put on a list of priorities. Railway and road connections between Croatia and Yugoslavia should be re-established soon, Stanimirovic said. (hina) rm jn 192132 MET sep 96