HUNGARIAN DEFENCE MINISTER VISITS HUNGARIAN UNITS NEAR STARA GRADI

GRADI $ SKA STARA GRADISKA, 13 Dec (Hina) - The Hungarian Defence Minister Gyoergy Keleti on Friday visited the Hungarian engineering battalion in the international Implementation Force, stationed in Pustara near Stara Gradiska, western Slavonia. Recalling that Hungarian engineers had reconstructed 19 bridges on the Croatian-Bosnian border, a 60-km-long railway line and many local roads, as well as that they had helped in the normalization of life in war-destroyed areas, Keleti presented 20 members of the battalion with medals. Eight officers and non- commissioned officers were promoted. By 23 December, a larger part of the unit which numbers 300 soldiers will leave for Hungary. They will be replaced by some 200 soldiers, who are already preparing for the arrival. Government Commissioner for Okucani municipality (western Slavonia), Drazen Japundzic, presented Keleti with a diploma and a monograph entitled 'Croatia' for the help of the Hungarian people in the reconstruction of the municipal infrastructure in Okucani. (hina) rm jn 131813 MET dec 96