SARAJEVO/BRCKO, Aug 21 (Hina) - Twenty disabled former members of the Bosnian Croat army (Croat Defence Council - HVO) and families of killed Croat soldiers from the north-eastern Bosnian Ravne-Brcko area on Wednesday signed contracts
on donations of construction material for the repair of their houses in Brcko District.
SARAJEVO/BRCKO, Aug 21 (Hina) - Twenty disabled former members of
the Bosnian Croat army (Croat Defence Council - HVO) and families of
killed Croat soldiers from the north-eastern Bosnian Ravne-Brcko
area on Wednesday signed contracts on donations of construction
material for the repair of their houses in Brcko District. #L#
Funds for the purchase of the material were secured through a
Croatian government programme for Croat war victims in Bosnia-
Herzegovina.
The programme includes 550 contracts, of which 500 have been
implemented.
Almost half the planned repair works are near completion.
Croatia's Consul in Banja Luka, Boris Belanic, who participated in
today's signing ceremony, announced new assistance programmes.
The assistance is intended primarily for Croats who wish to return
to their homes in what is now the Bosnian Serb entity.
The defence minister of the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Mijo
Anic, said that members of the Federation Army would continue
supporting reconstruction assistance programmes by storing
construction material, as well as participate in the construction
and repair of the returnees' houses.
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