ZAGREB, March 27 (Hina) - The vice-president of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), Jadranka Kosor, and the leadership of HDZ's branch in Vukovar at Thursday's news conference in Zagreb warned about difficult problems facing Vukovar
residents.
ZAGREB, March 27 (Hina) - The vice-president of the Croatian
Democratic Union (HDZ), Jadranka Kosor, and the leadership of HDZ's
branch in Vukovar at Thursday's news conference in Zagreb warned
about difficult problems facing Vukovar residents. #L#
The unemployment rate in Vukovar is more than 50%, and in certain
areas of Vukovar-Srijem County as high as 80%, Kosor said.
Reporters were given a letter which Vukovar Mayor Vladimir Stengl
sent to the government and competent ministries on March 10. The
letter points out that Croat parents, students and professors
warned a Vukovar school principal about how Croat students were
being verbally abused because of their ethic background, called
Ustashi and threatened because they returned to Vukovar.
Kosor appealed to competent institutions to urgently react to the
threats and abuse to which Croat students were exposed.
The head of Vukovar's City Council, Pilip Karaula, warned about the
problem of purchase of flats in the eastern Croatian city and the
reconstruction of homes, stressing that Serbs were more privileged
in the damage estimation of housing units than Croatian Homeland
War veterans.
"People are returning to Vukovar, but have no place to work or live
because refugees and Serbs who settled in Vukovar during the
Homeland War are taking their jobs and homes," Karaula said.
The president of the county's HDZ committee, Petar Cobankovic, said
the biggest problem was the non-functioning of the local economy
and warned about further dismissals of employees of the "Borovo"
footwear factory, as well as employees of the defence ministry.
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