CROATIAN PRIME MINISTER RECEIVES HUNGARIAN INTERIOR MINISTER

ZAGREB, Oct 21 (Hina) - Croatian Prime Minister Zlatko Matesa and Hungarian Interior Minister Gabor Kuncze met in Zagreb on Monday for talks on cooperation between the two countries and the process of reintegration of the UN-administered area into Croatia. They discussed the return to the Croatian Danube river area of nearly ly 1,800 Croatian refugees currently staying in Hungary, the status of ethnic Hungarians in Croatia and the opening of border crossings between the two countries in eastern Croatia. Matesa said that the Hungarians living in the Danube river area and Hungarian refugees who would return there had equal rights as other Croatian citizens who had lived there before the war. Asked when border crossings between the two countries would be opened in the area, which is still under Serb occupation, Matesa said that this problem would be solved in cooperation with the UN transitional administration. (hina) vm mm 211815 MET oct 96