The authorities in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, but in Serbia as well, are not doing enough to improve the situation, the chairman of the Community's Presidency, Branislav Svonja, told a press conference.
He said the Croatian government and President Stjepan Mesic had called on Serbs to return on a number of occasions, but "in practice everything was done for that not to happen".
Svonja went on to say that recent interethnic incidents in Croatia were not accidental and that they were aimed at intimidating Serbs and preventing a larger number of refugees from returning.
A member of the Community's Presidency, Nikola Vukovic, said that less than 15 per cent of Serb refugees had returned to Croatia, namely 58,000, and not 120,000 as claimed by the Croatian government.
Reporters were also told that the Croatian authorities were downplaying the number of 2,605 Serbs gone missing between 1991 and 1995.