ICRC MISSION CHIEF ON GATHERING OUTSIDE RED CROSS SEAT

ZAGREB, May 20 (Hina) - Head of the ICRC (International Committee of the Red Cross) Mission in Zagreb, Alex Braunwalder described today' gathering outside the Red Cross seat as "not so much a protest as a commemoration, aimed at keeping the memory of the missing and detained alive." In a statement for Hina, Braunwalder detailed Red Cross efforts in the search for the missing and the detained. He described last month's meeting between Croatian and Serbian missing persons officials as "encouraging." The next meeting should be held in Belgrade in the very near future, Braunwalder said, but stressed that ICRC representatives were only present at these meetings as neutral observers and had no official standing. However, it was necessary to forward all the data on missing and detained persons to ICRC if an efficient search was to be conducted, Braunwalder stressed. (hina) as 201553 MET may 95