GVOZD GVOZD, June 19 (Hina) - Croatia will have refugees return, reconstruct homes, but the economy also needs to be revived, jobs created, and conditions for normal living created. because war-struck areas no longer need
humanitarian, but economic help, Croatian President Stjepan Mesic said at a Human Rights Civil Committee forum in Gvozd on Wednesday.
GVOZD, June 19 (Hina) - Croatia will have refugees return,
reconstruct homes, but the economy also needs to be revived, jobs
created, and conditions for normal living created. because war-
struck areas no longer need humanitarian, but economic help,
Croatian President Stjepan Mesic said at a Human Rights Civil
Committee forum in Gvozd on Wednesday. #L#
Speaking in front of more than a hundred residents of Gvozd and
surrounding towns, Serb returnees and Bosnian Croats who settled in
the area, Mesic said that development could not be based on
humanitarian assistance. Local authorities, counties and the
government are obliged to faster create conditions to spur all
existing economic resources in the areas so that people can live and
stay in the areas, Mesic said.
He suggested the establishment of free zones "in which foreign
capital will arrive as well as modern technology so that people can
be employed".
The heads of the Gvozd, Topusko and Vojnic municipalities spoke
about the situation in the war-struck areas, return of property and
reconstruction of homes. Attending the forum were also Sisak-
Moslavina County Prefect Djuro Brodarac and representatives of
settled Bosnian Croats.
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