CROATIAN GOVT. STARTS TALKS WITH DELEGATIONS OF UNTAES AND LOCAL S

S $ ERBS ZAGREB, Nov 20 (Hina) - A delegation of the Croatian Government, led by a Deputy Prime Minister, Dr. Ivica Kostovic, began talks with a delegation of the UNTAES, led by the Transitional Administrator Jacques P. Klein, and with a delegation of local Serbs from the Croatian Danubian area, led by Dr. Vojislav Stanimirovic, at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday in Zagreb. Croatian Government's sources said that the closed-door talks would revolved around priorities of the peaceful reintegration of the Croatian Danubian area into the constitutional and legal system of the Republic of Croatia. After the joint meeting of the three delegations, working groups are to hold separate talks on public companies, education and transportation in the Croatian Danubian area as well as on the return to Baranja. Besides Kostovic, Croatian ministers in those fields and their deputies, the head of the Government's office for the temporary administration in the Croatian Danubian area Ivica Vrkic, the head of the office for displaced people and refugees Damir Zoric, and the president of the public companies' coordination for the issues of Croatian Danubian area Dr. Ivan Majdak were included in the Croatian delegation. Statements are expected to be available to journalists at about 16:00 p.m. (hina) jn mš 201341 MET nov 96