ZAGREB, Aug 27 (Hina) - In early September Croatia and Yugoslavia
will sign six agreements important for the normalization of
relations between the two countries and for a successful
implementation of the peaceful reintegration of the Danube region
of eastern Croatia, Zeljko Trkanjec, a spokesman for the Croatian
Foreign Ministry, said on Wednesday.
Croatia's Foreign Minister Mate Granic was expected to
visit Belgrade early in September, where with his Yugoslav
counterpart Milan Milutinovic, he would sign a package of six
agreements between the two countries, Trkanjec said.
This is the biggest package of agreements between Croatia
and Yugoslavia which has been worked on for a full year and which
represents a continuation in the implementation of an agreement
on the normalization of relations the two countries signed in
August 1996.
"These are very important agreements for the normalization
of relations between the two countries", Trkanjec said, adding
they would "positively affect the peaceful reintegration of the
Croatian Danube region."
The two ministers of foreign affairs will sign agreements
on local border traffic, border crossings, road and railway
transport, social insurance, and international legal assistance.
Of particular interest to residents of Croatia and
Yugoslavia on both sides of the border is the agreement on local
border traffic, according to which it will be possible to cross
the border with a special border pass, and without additional
formalities.
This agreement is especially important for Croats and
Serbs, citizens of both countries who live along the border. It
covers other citizens of the two countries in the border region
too, but it is clear that, with this agreement, Croatia shows
special interest for Croats over the border, in Yugoslavia, while
Yugoslavia shows interest for Serbs in Croatia.
The spokesman for Croatia's Interior Ministry stressed the
local border traffic agreement has been laid out in line with
international standards and on the basis of full reciprocity, in
relation to both rights and the area it covers.
The local border traffic agreement is especially important
for Croats in Yugoslavia, since it expressly puts them in a
Yugoslav document. Thus for instance, Slankamen, a village in the
Yugoslav region of Vojvodina, which borders with Croatia, and
inhabited by Croats, is covered by the agreement.
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