KOSTOVIC MEETS VUKOVAR MOTHERS BEHIND CLOSED DOORS

ZAGREB, Oct 17 (Hina) - Croatian Deputy Prime Minister Ivica Kostovic and members of the government commission for missing persons on Thursday informed the association of families of missing persons "Vukovar Mothers" about the progress of identification of bodies exhumed from the Ovcara mass grave. After a closed-door meeting in Zagreb, Kostovic told reporters that members of the "Vukovar Mothers" association would be first to know the results of identification. Kostovic stressed that Croatia did not have a comprehensive list of missing persons and detainees on the basis of which it could inform their families. Cooperation with other associations would be intensified in early December when Croatian experts were expected to take over the identification of victims, he said. Kostovic announced that a documentary film on the exhumation of the Ovcara mass grave, made by a British television crew, would be shown in February next year. (hina) vm 172043 MET oct 96