SUBOTICA ASSEMBLY PROPOSES CROATIAN LANGUAGE SCHOOLS ( Editorial: --> 2086 )

( Editorial: --> 2086 ) BELGRADE, Nov 19 (Hina) - The municipal assembly of Subotica, a town in the northern Yugoslav province of Vojvodina, will send a proposal to the Serbian Education Ministry for organising classes in the Croatian language as of the next school year, the Belgrade- based Nasa Borba daily reported on Wednesday. The proposal was initiated by Stanka Kujundzic, a member of the assembly's Council for the Development of Public Services. In an interview with Nasa Borba, she said conditions for organising classes in Croatian existed in Subotica, Sombor, Vajska and other towns where Croats were in a large number. However the status of Croats should be solved first, she said. "Croats in Serbia do not have a school of their own nor does any school teach Croatian. There are minority schools with curricula in Hungarian, Slovakian and Ruthenian, but Croats do not have them. Croats living in this country, considering their number, should be finally enabled to attend classes in Croatian," Kujundzic said. A member of the Subotica municipal assembly, Janos Nemet, told Nasa Borba that the agreement on the normalisation of relations between Croatia and Yugoslavia envisaged regulation of all relations on the principle of reciprocity, which also refers to school classes for the Serbian minority in Croatia and the Croatian minority in Yugoslavia. (hina) vm 191840 MET nov 97