CRO REFUGEES ASK KLEIN TO STOP CELEBRATION OF VUKOVAR'S "LIBERATIO

"LIBERATIO $ N" ZAGREB, Nov 14 (Hina) - The Croatian Displaced Persons' Association on Thursday asked the UN Transitional Administrator for the Croatian Danubian area, General Jacques Klein, to prevent a celebration which is planned to be prepared by Serbs in Vukovar on November 18. The Displaced persons also asked the Croatian government to take "every measure" to prevent the celebration. At Thursday's session of the Displaced Persons' Association in Zagreb, president Mato Simic said that the self-established Serb authorities had pronounced November 18, the day of occupation of Vukovar, a holiday. Simic quoted the decision which said that the day was being declared a non-working day so that the local residents could "celebrate the day of Vukovar's liberation as well as possible". The Displaced Persons' Association forwarded Klein "the most austere protest", requesting him to "prevent the celebration of the slaughter of the citizens of Vukovar". The Association asked the government to immediately stop sending money for salaries to clerks of the local Serb administration in the Croatian Danubian area which made decisions as the one mentioned above. (hina) lm jn 142037 MET nov 96