U.N., E.U. AND CROATIAN OFFICIALS MEET IN KARLOVAC

KARLOVAC, Feb 6 (Hina) - UN Sector North reperesentatives, UNCIVPOL and European monitors today in Karlovac met with Croatian army, police and Karlovac County officials to discuss the situation following the west Bosnian refugees' departure from the Turanj village. Refugees who fled west Bosnia after the Bosnian government army defeated renegade Moslem forces spilled into Croatia's UN protected areas and found accommodation for four months in the zone of separation near Turanj. The Croatian army commander for the Karlovac area, Major General Miljenko Crnjac, told reporters that Croatia demanded that UNPROFOR urgently improve sanitary conditions in the Turanj area for fear of epidemics. The Karlovac County Civil Defence headquarters is to set up a commission which together with UNPROFOR is to tour the area and draw up a sanitation plan. A commission for war damage assessment is to join them in the tour. Crnjac said Croatia warned UNPROFOR of a possible new wave of refugees from west Bosnia, stressing that Croatia could no longer tolerate their arrival in Turanj. If UNPROFOR did not stop them, Croatian police would return to the previous line of separation (which was where they were positioned before the Zagreb ceasefire agreement was signed) to prevent the refugees from entering Turanj, he stressed. Croatia also protested to UNPROFOR over rebel Serbs, stationed at Slunj Hills, violating the ceasefire by frequently opening small arms fire at Croatian check points. UNPROFOR officials again raised the issue of opening a check point at Turanj for the passage of UNPROFOR vehicles, but the Croatian side rejected it insisting that first sanitation be carried out in the entire Turanj area. (hina) jn sd vm 061821 MET feb 95