CROATIAN GOVERNMENT DELEGATION TO VISIT VUKOVAR ON TUESDAY ( Editorial: --> 1520 )

( Editorial: --> 1520 ) VUKOVAR, Nov 17 (Hina) - A Croatian government delegation headed by Prime Minister Zlatko Matesa will present the book "Vukovar - A Challenge of Reconstruction" in Vukovar on Tuesday to mark the beginning of the postwar reconstruction of this eastern Croatian town. The visit was announced by the chairwoman of the national committee in charge of restoring inter-ethnic trust, Vesna Skare-Ozbolt, in Vukovar on Monday after a closed-door session of members of the committee and representatives of the local Serb community. "It will be an important event for Vukovar," Skare-Ozbolt told reporters. Delegations of the Vukovar county and municipal governments and of the Joint Council of Serb-dominated municipalities will separately lay wreaths at town cemeteries on Tuesday. "There will be no other commemorations," Skare-Ozbolt said. Skare-Ozbolt described recent incidents in Vukovar as "individual incidents", saying that before the end of the UNTAES mandate the Transitional Police Force would step up its presence in Vukovar and the entire Croatian Danube region. "Most of the inhabitants of the Croatian Danube region do not want such incidents," she said, adding that they had most probably been committed by those who did not plan to live there. "The end of the UNTAES mandate will also mean the end of such incidents." (hina) vm 171903 MET nov 97