MOSTAR, April 3 (Hina) - The Minister of Human Rights and Refugees of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kresimir Zubak, on Wednesday claimed that this year's budget funds were not going to be used for care for displaced persons who did not wish to
return to their pre-war homes, including Croats from Drvar.
MOSTAR, April 3 (Hina) - The Minister of Human Rights and Refugees
of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kresimir Zubak, on Wednesday claimed that
this year's budget funds were not going to be used for care for
displaced persons who did not wish to return to their pre-war homes,
including Croats from Drvar. #L#
Speaking at a press conference in Mostar following a meeting of the
State Commission for Refugees and Displaced Persons, Zubak
specified that this also related to Croats in Drvar because there
was simply not enough money in the state budget to reconstruct
destroyed family homes of those displaced people who wanted to
return to their pre-war homes.
Zubak said that canton authorities had misguided Croats in Drvar
promising them that they could remain in that town and so around
1,300 of 1,700 families did not even submit requests for the
restitution of their pre-war property.
He said that the Croatian government could re-direct a portion of
the funds earmarked this year to assist returnees into the
reconstruction of homes belonging to Croats who wished to return to
their pre-war places of residence. This primarily refers to Croats
from Bosnia-Herzegovina who are currently occupying property
belonging to Croatian Serbs. The reconstruction of their homes
would enable the return of Serbs to Croatia and Croats to Bosnia-
Herzegovina. A project of this type is already being realised in
Samac in the northern Bosnian region of Posavina, Zubak said.
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