EU MONITORS FOCUS ATTENTION ON E. SLAVONIA, BH

SARAJEVO, 15 Jan (Hina) - The European Union Monitor Mission for the former Yugoslavia area directed its attention to the situation in eastern Slavonia, especially in view of the forthcoming elections, as well as to controlling the situation in Bosnia-Herzegovina (BH), EU monitors' new leader, Dutch Ambassador Daan Everts, said in Sarajevo on Wednesday, reminding that the Hungarian, Bulgarian and Macedonian monitor teams had been withdrawn. Everts was appointed to his office after the Netherlands took chairmanship of the EU and will most probably hold it until the end of the year, since Luxembourg representatives, who should coordinate with the EU's work after six months, would, as Everts said, not be able to fulfill all the necessary obligations. The main seat of the European monitors would be transferred from the Croatian capital of Zagreb to the Bosnian one of Sarajevo, said Everts, adding that the monitor mission in BH would include 20 teams. The EU monitors would continue to act completely neutrally, the Dutch Ambassador pointed out, explaining that their basic aim remained to keep the EU member-states informed about the situation in BH. (hina) ha 151331 MET jan 97