CROATIA, YUGOSLAVIA END TWO-DAY TALKS ON MISSING PERSONS

BELGRADE, Dec 11 (Hina) - The chairman of the Croatian government's commission for detained and missing persons, Major Ivan Grujic, said on Wednesday that progress had been made during talks with Yugoslav representatives in solving the problem of missing persons. A two-day meeting in Belgrade which closed on Wednesday had discussed concrete cases and specific groups of missing persons, Grujic told Hina, adding that the Croatian side would verify the data it had received and then inform the families of missing persons and the public. "The next meeting will be held in Belgrade in about ten days to continue the exchange of documentation and all information on missing persons," he said. The meeting also involved representatives from the Croat- Moslem Federation and the Serb Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina. Croatia demanded that the Bosnian Serbs reveal whether there were still any Croats held in Serb prisons. Grujic said that there were indications that there were still unregistered Croat detainees in Serb prisons. Grujic said that it was agreed that the exhumation of mass graves in the UN-administered Danube river region of eastern Croatia would continue. Croat representative of the Bosnian Federation Berislav Pusic said that the Bosnian Croats would make every effort to hand over the bodies of Yugoslav army troops found in the areas under their control. Under the agreement reached on Wednesday, the Yugoslav side should provide information on the fate of Croats who had gone missing in the Kupres area of southwestern Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1992. They were taken prisoner by Serb forces and apparently transferred to Yugoslavia. Pusic said that it was agreed that exhumations would continue in the northern Posavina region and other areas of Bosnia- Herzegovina. (hina) vm jn 112052 MET dec 96