TUDJMAN TO VISIT CRO DANUBE REGION ON "TRAIN FOR VUKOVAR-PEACE TRA IN"

IN" ZAGREB, June 7 (Hina) - On the "Train for Vukovar - Train for Peace, the President of Croatia, Franjo Tudjman, would on Sunday, 8 June, symbolically take the whole Croatia to its eastern borders, the Croatian Danube region and Vukovar, the head of the President's cabinet, Gordan Radin, told reporters in Zagreb on Saturday. "It is the train of peace and return, of the establishment of mutual trust and reconstruction, which arrives before the termination of UNTAES' mandate, and is a confirmation of the correctness and maturity of the Croatian state leadership's policy, which chose the way of peaceful reintegration of the Croatian Danube region", Radin said. In the train, which will comprise 21 carriages from all Croatia's counties, President Tudjman will be joined by the state leadership and representatives of all Croatian counties, members of the diplomatic corps accredited in Croatia, church dignitaries, and science, culture and public figures. A cultural manifestation beginning at Zagreb's central station at 08.00 hours will see the train off, while the president of the Zagreb City Assembly, Zlatko Canjuga, the president of the Zagreb Writers' Association, Ante Stamac, and President Tudjman, are expected to make speeches. Upon arriving at Vukovar's demolished railway station, the "Train for Vukovar - Train for Peace" will be met by the heads of local bodies of government and self-government and the local population employed in public Croatian enterprise. In a short address, the representatives of all Croatia's counties will present their county's programme for assisting in the reconstruction of the Croatian Danube region. (hina) ha 071422 MET jun 97