DJAKOVO ARMY DISTRICT COMMANDER RECEIVES EUROPEAN MONITORS REPS

OSIJEK, Oct 14 (Hina) - The commander of Croatian army's Djakovo district, eastern Croatia, Brigadier Dragan Bagaric, on Tuesday received the head of the European monitoring mission's coordination centre, Staff Meeze, and his deputy Hein Hegge, a Djakovo army district statement said. Meeze and Hegge presented their organization which has five teams in the Djakovo army district, whose task is to monitor and regularly report on security, political and humanitarian conditions in former UN sectors areas in Croatia, and to supervise the two-way return of displaced persons and refugees. Bagaric informed the European monitors about the Croatian army's determination to contribute to the completion of the peaceful reintegration in line with reached agreements, and to use its appropriate attitude and professionalism to show international community representatives that the it (Croatian army) is ready to be included in Western security and defense systems. Bagaric and the European monitors agreed that UNTAES will leave Croatia as planned, and that the Djakovo army district command will continue to openly cooperate with international community monitors in the UN-administered region in order for the UNTAES mandate to terminate on 15 January 1998, the statement concluded. (hina) ha 141800 MET oct 97