BARANJA CONNECTED TO CROATIAN TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEM

BELI MANASTIR, May 21 (Hina) - Baranja, occupied area in eastern Croatia, was on Tuesday connected to the Croatian telecommunication system. UN officials from their office in Zagreb called the Temporary Administrator Jacques Klein at 11 am and made the first phone call. In the first report over the phone, Hina's reporter reported of Klein's statement that the demilitarization of the area is to begin on Tuesday at 12 pm. "We informed the UN Secretary-General of this," Klein said. On occasion of the phone connection, Croatian vice premier Ivica Kostovic placed a phone call to the head of the Croatian government Office for the temporary administration for the establishment of Croatian authority in eastern Slavonia, Baranja and western Srijem, Ivica Vrkic. Kostovic congratulated Klein and others who made it possible to connect Baranja with Croatia and the world. He stressed that this was a great step in the process of peaceful reintegration. Klein expressed his satisfaction that this connected people. Vrkic also expressed his satisfaction stressing "weapons are quiet, words have replaced it". (hina) lm jn 211304 MET may 96