LUTZ MEETS REPRESENTATIVES OF SERB MINORITY IN CROATIA

ZAGREB, July 3 (Hina) - Head of the Task Force for Regional Issues at International Peace Coordinator Carl Bildt' s Office, Ambassador Martin Lutz, on Tuesday held talks with representatives of the Initiative for the Serb National Congress and the Commission for Human Rights of the Serbs' Association in Croatia. According to a Wednesday statement by the representatives, they acquainted Lutz with the actual movements in the Serb National Association and with their programmes, initiatives and attempts to reconstruct citizens' relations, help the return of all displaced persons and achieve equality in the working, social and property status. They particularly stressed the importance of legal security and the realization of equalities before the law as basic conditions for the future of the Serb National Association in Croatia. The statement also said that the representatives told Lutz that they opposed reciprocity as a possible option of agreements on the rights of minorities in the process of normalizing relations between Croatia and Yugoslavia. (hina) ha jn 031743 MET jul 96