The committee issued a statement on Friday appealing to refugees from Croatia to persist in their demand that their tenancy rights be recognised according to a model applied in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
The statement said that their tenancy rights stemmed from the Dayton peace agreement and the agreement on succession to the former Yugoslav federation, which guarantee restitution of tenancy rights to all pre-war tenancy rights holders without any discrimination or conditions.
Committee chairman Radenko Popic told the Belgrade news agency Beta that the decision by the Croatian government stipulated that Croatia would provide housing for former tenancy rights holders rather than allow them to buy their pre-war apartments and houses at a discount, as was the case in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
"The decision by the Croatian government is absolutely discriminatory, because people are offered to buy those apartments at 80 per cent of their market value, and people cannot afford that," Popic said, adding that refugees were not even offered their previous apartments nor were they guaranteed that they would be allowed to return to their pre-war places of residence.