DANUBE REGION AUTHORITIES SEEK STATE'S SUPPORT FOR LOCAL ECONOMY

( Editorial: --> 4092 ) VUKOVAR, Feb 23 (Hina) - Vukovar-Sirmium County authorities on Monday discussed the state of the economy and reconstruction and return in the Croatian Danube River region. Participants in the meeting, which included parliamentary representatives from the county and assistant ministers from competent ministries, sought urgent talks with government representatives on economic problems. As well as privatisation, which most participants considered to be unjustifiably slow, redundant labour was considered the largest problem, warned management representatives of Vukovar firms Vuteks, Borovo and VUPIK. Vukovar-Sirmium County Prefect Rudolf Koenig said the Danube region economy needed the financial support of the state, which through the Croatian Privatisation Fund was the owner of the largest and most significant firms in the Danube region. (Hina) mm mb 232034 MET feb 98