HEARING ON EX-YUGOSLAVIA'S REAL ESTATE POSTPONED

ROME, Nov 19 (Hina) - The first hearing on succession to the real estate owned by the former Yugoslavia in Italy, scheduled for Tuesday (Nov. 19) at a civil court in Rome, has been postponed to May 20, 1997. The hearing has been postponed to establish the grounds for Slovenia's demand concerning the alleged existence of deposits of the former Yugoslavia's central bank in Italian banks. Slovenia demanded any such deposits be frozen, and that they be included, along with the real estate in Italy, in division among all successor-states to the former Yugoslavia. The former Yugoslavia possessed about twenty buildings in Italian towns. On the basis of the joint demand by Croatia, Macedonia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, Italy has frozen the right of any successor-state to have the buildings at their disposal so that Belgrade could not appropriate them without a ruling by the Italian court. The most valuable building, the Meraviglia villa worth more than one billion lire, is in Rome and it used to house the embassy and residences of the former Yugoslavia. This building, with four storeys and 43 rooms, is currently housing the embassy of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY). The property of the former Yugoslavia in Milan and Trieste has been also frozen. (hina) mm mš 191842 MET nov 96