MINISTER GRANIC TALKS WITH CROATIAN DISPLACED PEOPLE

ZAGREB, Oct 9 (Hina) - Croatia's Foreign Minister Mate Granic received on Wednesday a delegation of the Croatian Displaced Persons' Association, led by its president Mato Simic. Simic told Minister Granic about preparations for the 4th conference of the refugees' association due to be held this weekend in Zagreb, the Foreign Ministry said. Granic informed the delegation of steps the Republic of Croatia was being taking in contacts with the international community in order to agree on the date of the end of the UNTAES mandate and the eventual reintegration of the Croatian Danubian area into Croatia's constitutional and legal system. Croatia was determined in its efforts to prevent any halts in the process of the reintegration, Granic said. He emphasized the significance of Tuesday's agreement between President Franjo Tudjman and the UN Transitional Administrator of eastern Croatia, General Jacques Klein, that Croatia's rule should be established in eastern Slavonia, Baranja and western Sirmium in early spring 1997, whereas the UNTAES mandate would end by early summer 1997. (hina) jn mš 091607 MET oct 96