EDUCATION MINISTER VISITS VUKOVAR HIGH SCHOOL

( Editorial: --> 7321 ) VUKOVAR, Dec 10 (Hina) - Croatian Education Minister Ljilja Vokic on Wednesday visited a Vukovar high school. She also held talks with the UNTAES head of Civil Affairs, Gerard Fischer, at the UNTAES base in Vukovar. Vokic thanked the UNTAES and he high school teachers for their contribution to the peaceful reintegration of the Danube river region of eastern Croatia. The teachers mentioned the issue of the Serb language and Serb literature as one of the problems encountered in teaching. Vokic said that the education ministry had accepted a programme drafted by the Serbian Cultural Society Prosvjeta, regardless of doubts surrounding the criteria for including certain authors in the syllabus. UNTAES' Fischer said that the education system in eastern Croatia would continue to be internationally monitored even after UNTAES' withdrawal. We strongly believe that you, as teachers and intellectuals, are the most responsible for the normalization of this area, Fischer said. He hoped they would continue to trust both the international community and the Croatian state. Education minister Vokic continued her stay in eastern Croatia with a visit to Ilok. (hina) ha jn 101518 MET dec 97