GELBARD VISITS VUKOVAR

( Editorial: --> 3186 ) VUKOVAR, Mar 29 (Hina) - The United States President's special envoy for the implementation of the peace agreement in Bosnia- Herzegovina, Robert Gelbard, Sunday visited the eastern Croatian town of Vukovar. Accompanied by the U.S. Ambassador to Croatia, Robert Montgomery, Gelbard met with Serb Democratic Independent Party president Vojislav Stanimirovic and Joint Council of (Serb majority) Municipalities president Milos Vojnovic. Talks focused on the implementation of the Erdut agreement on the reintegration of eastern Croatia, the peaceful reintegration process, the Amnesty Law and, according to Serb representatives, the lately frequent incidents in the area. Around noon, the American delegation began a meeting at the building of the city authorities with members of the Croatian government's National Trust Establishment Committee chaired by Vesna Skare-Ozbolt. Upon entering the city authorities building, Gelbard was met by members of Apel, a centre for the protection of rights of detained and missing Croatian citizens and their families, who handed him an album with 800 photographs and brief biographies of the detained and missing, as well as a video tape shot in a Vukovar hospital on the eve of the town's fall under the Serb aggression. (hina) ha 291352 MET mar 98