WATER TOWER IN VUKOVAR WILL TESTIFY TO SERBIAN AGGRESSION: MAYOR

VUKOVAR, July 8 (Hina) - The heavily damaged Vukovar water tower and demolished building of the railway station will not undergo reconstruction as previously planned, but will be preserved in their present state, Vukovar Mayor Vladimir Stengl said on Wednesday. The mayor said the water tower and railway station building will be preserved as testimony to the Serbian aggression on Croatia and the heroic defence of the town. It will also help us remember the Peace Train which President Franjo Tudjman last year symbolically used to mark the completion of the peaceful reintegration of Vukovar and the Danube river region into Croatian sovereignty, Stengl told Hina. The two facilities were to be reconstructed as part of a donors' project under which every Croatian county was to reconstruct one major building in the eastern town. Since the water tower and railway station will no longer be of use to life in Vukovar, it was decided that they be turned into lasting monuments testifying to the defence of Vukovar and Croatia, Stengl said. (hina) ha jn /mbr 081816 MET jul 98