FRESH CROATIAN INITIATIVES IN SECTOR EAST

OSIJEK, Dec 1 (Hina) - The Croatian side has offered another initiative, said Branimir Glavas, coordinator of the Commission for UNPROFOR operation in Sector East, at a meeting on Wednesday with Philip Corwin, UNPROFOR's civil affairs coordinator in Sector East. The initiative includes urgent talks about pensions for Croatian citizens in the occupied territories. Mr Corwin said the Serb side was not ready to negotiate before elections, but stressed he believed that they were willing to talk about communications, transport and energy. Mr Corwin noted that the Serb side had always conditioned the talks with the pull-out of Croatian Army troops from Sector East. Mr Glavas reiterated a proposal for establishing a bus service between Osijek and Beli Manastir. He pointed out that the tension should ease so that all Croatian citizens could come to Osijek when they wished. 011839 MET dec 93