VUKOVAR SERB PARENTS WARN THEIR CHILDREN WON'T ATTEND CLASSES ( Editorial: --> 9350 )

( Editorial: --> 9350 ) BELI MANASTIR (Hina) - Serb parents of Vukovar, not satisfied with the situation in the schools in the Croatian Danube river area, announced that as of Monday (November 10) they would not send their children to primary and secondary schools in the region, a local television broadcast on Saturday evening. The parents held a meeting in Vukovar on Friday evening when they decided to cease classes on 10 November till a meeting between Serb representatives and officials of the Croatian Education Ministry officials and UN Transitional Administration of the region (UNTAES) which should revolve round Serb demands, the television added. At their meeting parents read a letter asking that the Education Ministry replace non-Serb headmasters with Serb ones. They also insisted that Serb school books would be delivered soon and that an agreed-upon moratorium on learning a period of Croatian history since 1990 up to now should be complied with. They asked that school documentation be in the two languages. The local television said that present at the meeting were the president of the joint council of the (Serb) municipalities, Milos Vojnovic, and an MP and the president of the Serb Democratic Independent Party (SDSS) Vojislav Stanimirovic. Stanimirovic called on the parents not to boycott classes as the meeting between Education Ministry officials, UNTAES and Serb representatives, on which they insisted, was convened for the following week. (hina) mš 091051 MET nov 97