GRANIC RECEIVES BELGIAN SPECIAL ENVOY FOR CROATIAN DANUBE REGION ( Editorial: --> 9921 )

( Editorial: --> 9921 ) ZAGREB, Nov 11 (Hina) - Croatian Foreign Minister Mate Granic on Tuesday received the newly-appointed special envoy of the Belgian government for the Croatian Danube region, Thierry Muuls, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement. The two officials expressed mutual satisfaction with the successful process of the peaceful reintegration of the UN- administered Danube region into Croatia. Granic stressed the constructive role the Belgian battalion and the outgoing Belgian government envoy, Ambassador de Grubben, had played in that process. Granic expressed firm conviction that the UNTAES mission, as a result of the cooperation of the Croatian government, the UN and all countries participating in the reintegration process, would successfully terminate on January 15 next year, after which an OSCE observer mission would remain in the region. Croatia hopes that the international community will take an active part in the economic reconstruction of the Croatian Danube region, Granic said. (hina) vm 111319 MET nov 97