PRESIDENT'S CHIEF-OF-STAFF RECEIVES EU TROIKA AMBASSADORS

ZAGREB, Dec 6 (Hina) - President Tudjman's chief-of-staff, Hrvoje Sarinic, on Friday received the ambassadors of the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Italy, whose countries currently make up the European "troika". The ambassadors conveyed the European Union's views on the need to fully and consistently implement the Basic Agreement in order to successfully complete the peaceful reintegration of the Croatian Danubian area. Croatia was committed to the successful and timely completion of the peaceful reintegration process, as testified by President Tudjman's recent visit to Vukovar and his meeting with local Serb representatives, Sarinic said. Croatian authorities would speed up the process of issuing citizenship documents to all Serbs who applied for them, accepted Croatia as their homeland and fulfilled the requirements, Sarinic announced. He voiced concern over a recent assault on Croatian journalists in Vukovar, demanding that the international community use its influence to prevent further incidents of this kind and remove all extremists from among the local Serbs who were hampering the peaceful reintegration process. (hina) as vm 061900 MET dec 96