CROATIA ASKS UNTAES TO BE MORE EFFECTIVE

ZAGREB, Oct 16 (Hina) - Head of the Coordination of public corporations for the Croatian Danubian area, Ivan Majdak, on Wednesday said that UNTAES had to provide as efficient assistance as possible to Croatian companies to enter the Danubian area. #L# "Croatian public companies have implemented everything that had been agreed, but we face political problems from companies in the Danubian area. So, the presence of UNTAES has to be felt more clearly," Majdak told reporters after the fourth session of the Coordination which took place in Zagreb on Wednesday. Majdak stressed that international forces should, among other things, prevent further robbery in the Croatian Danubian area, especially the constant carrying off of timber and destruction of wild life. He recalled that the priorities of public companies in the Danubian area were opening of the Vinkovci-Tovarnik-Sid railway, that is, the signing of a contract between the Croatian Railways and Yugoslav Railways which would enable the railway line to be opened. Stressing that clearing of mines should be continued and started in agricultural lands, Majdak said that a memorandum on Autumn reaping had been signed on Tuesday. Majdak reiterated that there could not be parallel companies in the Croatian Danubian area, but that the local companies had to integrate into the Croatian system. A plan drafted by the Croatian oil company INA was being carried out in Djeletovci, but opening of gas stations had to be intensified, Majdak said. Speaking about the outdoor market place which had been opened by UNTAES on the outskirts of Osijek towards the occupied area and which had been closed recently for sanitary reasons, Majdak said that it could be reopened if known conditions for this kind of facility were fulfilled. (hina) lm mm 161813 MET oct 96