LOCAL SERBS PREVENT WORK OF THREE OFFICES FOR ISSUING CROATIAN DOC

CROATIAN DOC $ UMENTS VINKOVCI, Jan 31 (Hina) - Offices for issuing Croatian documents in Brsadin, Negoslavci and Bobota in the area under UNTAES control are closed because the personnel are being prevented from working, head of the Vukovar County Office for General Administration, Marijana Matanovic, told Hina on Friday. The office in Brsadin, which should have been opened on 29 January had not been opened because the personnel had been prevented from entering the office, Matanovic said. Local Serbs had removed the furniture from an office in Bobota and relocated it, she added. There are nine offices for issuing Croatian documents in the Vukovar County. So far, 3,000 citizenship certificates and identification cards have been issued to the local residents. Out of 37,000 applications for Croatian documents which had been submitted by Serbs who had settled in the area from other parts of Croatia, 27,000 had been resolved by 25 January, Matanovic said. The offices received about 1,000 applications a day, and only in Vukovar 200 to 300, she said. (hina) lm jn 311349 MET jan 97