CROATIA INSISTS ON IMPLEMENTATION OF GRANIC-MILUTINOVIC ACCORD

ZAGREB, Nov 21 (Hina) - After working groups of the Croatian and Yugoslav governments' commissions for imprisoned and missing persons had began talks on Thursday, a Croatian Deputy Prime Minister Ivica Kostovic said that the Croatian Government was expecting from the Yugoslav side to "fulfill its commitments under the Granic-Milutinovic agreement" We were expecting from the Yugoslav (FRY) Government commission for humanitarian issues and missing persons to hand over at least a part of identification protocols and to solve certain individual cases from the Croatian Danubian area, western Slavonia, Banovina and areas in Bosnia where Croatian citizens had gone missing, Kostovic said. He added that the Croatian side was expecting the solution of cases of 11 missing persons, for whom there were information that they were living in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, but that they were not in prison. Families of the persons in question sent them messages by help of the International Committee of the Red Cross, but they have not yet received response. "The negotiations represent a step forward in the process of search for missing persons. Commissions are continuing to work," Kostovic said. (hina) mm mš 211958 MET nov 96