CROATIAN PARLIAMENTARY DELEGATION'S AFTERNOON MEETING

STRASBOURG, Nov 17 (Hina) - "Let me remind you of the death of my native town of Vukovar that happened on this day two days ago," Count Jacob Eltz of Vukovar said at the beginning of this afternoon's continued meeting of the Croatian Parliamentary delegation with the European Parliamentary delegation for the relations with the republics from the former Yugoslavia. After three months of defending themselves, a great of Vukovar residents were killed, 300 injured were dragged from the hospital and killed, both civilians and defenders were taken to prison camps and tortured. After the exchanges of prisoners, the destiny of yet another 2,300 persons is not known, according to Count Eltz's words. Dr.Franjo Greguric informed the hosts on the privatization process, stating that there is still a lack of foreign investments, and that Croatia still has not received any support from the foreign financial institutions. Talking about the PHARE program Brian Simpson said that the Committee for the Foreign Economic Relations still has not been given a political sign from the EC for including the Croatia. Having stated that the inclusion of Croatia into the PHARE program will not be connected with the global resolution in the entire territory of the former Yugoslavia, Dr.Savka Dabcevic Kucar invited the European Parliamentary representatives to initiate that proposal, since the PHARE program is Croatia's entrance ticket into other European institutions. She also suggested that the mandate for the commencement of the negotiations on concluding a special contract on trade and cooperation be authorized, which would open doors for the Financial Protocol, and which could be followed by using other financial means. (End) 172048 MET nov 93